Infect

[ɪn'fekt] or [ɪn'fɛkt]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) contaminate with a disease or microorganism.

(verb.) communicate a disease to; 'Your children have infected you with this head cold'.

(verb.) affect in a contagious way; 'His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room'.

(verb.) corrupt with ideas or an ideology; 'society was infected by racism'.

安琪編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) Infected. Cf. Enfect.

(v. t.) To taint with morbid matter or any pestilential or noxious substance or effluvium by which disease is produced; as, to infect a lancet; to infect an apartment.

(v. t.) To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague.

(v. t.) To communicate to or affect with, as qualities or emotions, esp. bad qualities; to corrupt; to contaminate; to taint by the communication of anything noxious or pernicious.

(v. t.) To contaminate with illegality or to expose to penalty.

校對:凯特

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Taint with disease, affect with contagious matter.[2]. Pollute, contaminate, vitiate, poison, defile, corrupt.

編輯:罗伊

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Taint, corrupt, contaminate, pollute, defile,[See CONTAMINATE]

达伦編輯

解釋/意思:

v.t. to taint especially with disease: to corrupt: to poison.—adj. (Shak.) tainted.—n. Infec′tion act of infecting: that which infects or taints.—adjs. Infec′tious Infect′ive having the quality of infecting: corrupting: apt to spread.—adv. Infec′tiously.—n. Infec′tiousness.

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