infect
Meaning of infect
verb
- affect (a person, organism, etc.) with a disease-causing organism.
pregnant women who may have been infected with the virus
late Middle English: from Latin infect- ‘tainted’, from the verb inficere, from in- ‘into’ + facere ‘put, do’.
Information about infect
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of infect is: infects.
- Languages in which infect is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of infect
in-fect
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- infect is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
infect synonyms
Meaning taint:
Meaning make (something) impure by exposure to or addition of a poisonous or polluting substance:
Translation of infect
- Italian: contagiare, infettare
- Spanish: contagiar, infectar
- German: infizieren, anstecken
- French: infecter, contaminer
- Portuguese: contagiar, infectar
Anagrams of infect
Words that rhyme with infect
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