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infect

[ UK /ɪnfˈɛkt/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈfɛkt/ ]
VERB
  1. corrupt with ideas or an ideology
    society was infected by racism
  2. affect in a contagious way
    His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room
  3. communicate a disease to
    Your children have infected you with this head cold
  4. contaminate with a disease or microorganism

How To Use infect In A Sentence

  • Seizures are most likely to occur early in an illness (such as roseola, colds, gastrointestinal infection) when the fever is rising quickly.
  • I can find no legitimate references to the use of metallic, inorganic, or organic silver compounds as a sanitizer, disinfectant, or sterilizing agent. quaternary ammonium chloride compounds - Mixtures of compounds such as alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride, didecyl dimethyl ammonium chloride, dioctyl dimethyl ammonium chloride, and octyl decyl dimethyl ammonium chloride are very commonly used as surface sanitizer; if you look at your household cleaners that claim disinfecting properties, there's a high percentage chance that you'll find a "quat". Question ;Microdyne
  • In some parts, the infection is popularly known as "pinkeye" because it turns the whites of the eyes pink. Dealing with Conjunctivitis
  • Patients with primary infection tend to be clinically ‘sicker’ than those who are reinfected.
  • The virus can actually destroy those white blood cells, leaving the body wide open to attack from other infections.
  • In chronic smoldering cases, inflammatory bowel disease can be misdiagnosed, and treatment with steroids only exacerbates the infection.
  • Genital infections are spread venereally, and respiratory infections usually by inhalation.
  • The drug will be useful to hundreds of thousands of infected people.
  • He infected mice and rabbits with Trypanosoma gondii, the parasite responsible for the dreaded sleeping sickness, then injected the animals with chemical derivatives to determine if any of them could halt the infection. The Emperor of All Maladies
  • The excess amniotic fluid was then removed from the recipient twin sac, and antibiotics were placed into the uterine cavity to decrease the risk of infection. Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS)
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