1. Containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms
   - septic

1. Communicate a disease to
   "Your children have infected you with this head cold" 
2. Contaminate with a disease or microorganism
   - taint 
3. Corrupt with ideas or an ideology
   "society was infected by racism" 
4. Affect in a contagious way
   "His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room"

See also: abscessed, contaminative, dirty, germy, infection, infectious, infective, pestiferous, purulent, pussy, putrefacient, putrefactive, septicemic, unhealthful

Type of: affect, contaminate, corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise [Brit], demoralize, deprave, foul, give, impress, misdirect, move, pervert, pollute, profane, strike, subvert, vitiate

Antonym: disinfect

Encyclopedia: Infect

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