infect
Verb
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Communicate a disease to (synset 200089502)
"Your children have infected you with this head cold"is a type of: give - cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sensesubtypes: canker - infect with a canker
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Contaminate with a disease or microorganism (synset 200088465)
subtypes:
- superinfect - infect (an infected cell) further or infect a cell already containing similar organisms
- smut - affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
same as: taint -
Corrupt with ideas or an ideology (synset 202586322)
"society was infected by racism"
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Affect in a contagious way (synset 200606893)
"His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room"
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