Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - infect
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Infect
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~ v 1 to give someone a disease (People with the virus may feel perfectly well, but they can still infect others.) 2 to put something that spreads disease into food, water, the air etc 3 if your excitement, eagerness etc infects other people, it makes them begin to feel the same way (Lucy's enthusiasm soon infected the rest of the class.)
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(infects, infecting, infected) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. To infect people, animals, or plants means to cause them to have a disease or illness. A single mosquito can infect a large number of people. ...people infected with HIV. VERB: V n, V-ed, also V n with n • infection ...plants that are resistant to infection. N-UNCOUNT 2. To infect a substance or area means to cause it to contain harmful germs or bacteria. The birds infect the milk. ...a virus which is spread mainly by infected blood. = contaminate VERB: V n, V-ed 3. When people, places, or things are infected by a feeling or influence, it spreads to them. For an instant I was infected by her fear... He thought they might infect others with their bourgeois ideas... His urge for revenge would never infect her. VERB: be V-ed by n, V n with n, V n 4. If a virus infects a computer, it affects the computer by damaging or destroying programs. (COMPUTING) This virus infected thousands of computers within days. VERB: V n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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transitive verb Etymology: Middle English, from Latin ~us, past participle of inficere, from in- + facere to make, do — more at do Date: 14th century 1. to contaminate with a disease-producing substance or agent (as bacteria) 2. a. to communicate a pathogen or a disease to b. of a pathogenic organism to invade (an individual or organ) usually by penetration c. of a computer virus to become transmitted and copied to (as a computer) 3. a. contaminate, corrupt the inflated writing that ~s such stories b. to work upon or seize upon so as to induce sympathy, belief, or support trying to ~ their salespeople with their enthusiasm • ~or noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. 1 contaminate (air, water, etc.) with harmful organisms or noxious matter. 2 affect (a person) with disease etc. 3 instil bad feeling or opinion into (a person). Derivatives infector n. Etymology: ME f. L inficere infect- taint (as IN-(2), facere make) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. заражать (также перен.) to infect an open wound —- занести инфекцию в открытую рану to be infected with diphtheria —- заразиться дифтеритом infected by his merriment —- зараженный его весельем his high spirits infected all his companions —- его хорошее настроение передалось окружающим ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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v. заражать (тж. перен.) (with) Go away, I dont want to infect you with my cold. The children are infected with a mad desire to swim in the lake in midwinter. ...Англо-русский словарь
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- c.1380, from L. infectus, pp. of inficere "to spoil, stain," lit. "to put in," from in- "in" + facere "perform." Infection is 1548 in sense of "communication of disease by agency of air or water" (distinguished from contagion, which is body-to-body communication). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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