How to pronounce “infect”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive) To bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen), so that the pathogen begins to act on the body; (of a pathogen) to come into contact with (a body or body part) and begin to act on it.
• (transitive) To contaminate (an object or substance) with a pathogen.
• (transitive) To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion, or to communicate a feeling to others, or a feeling communicating itself to others.
• [Adjective]
• (obsolete) Infected.

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