HOW TO PRONOUNCE
infect
/ˌɪnˈfɛkt/
Press play to hear how to pronounce infect.
American Pronunciation Guide · 1:03
Watch on YouTube ↗
Watch on YouTube ↗
What does infect mean?
verb
- 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.
- To contaminate (an object or substance) with a pathogen.
- To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion, or to communicate a feeling to others, or a feeling communicating itself to others.
More meanings (3)
verb
- Of a computer virus: to insert its own code into (another executable file).
adjective
- (obsolete) Infected.
- (rare) Representing an action not yet completed.
Definitions regrouped for readability · CC BY-SA 4.0
IPA pronunciation
/ˌɪnˈfɛkt/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
In the pages of books
See this word in context.
For it is impossible to infect a man with interest when you have no interest to infect with.
And in the imitation of these twain— Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns With an imperial voice—many are infect.
More book examples (3)
The tubes were placed in an incubator and several kinds of organisms grew, very similar to those which infect wounds in ordinary climates.
In short, there is hardly any limit to the follies with which our Commercialism would infect any system that it would tolerate at all.
The germs discharged from the mouth and nostrils are coughed up from the lungs and may infect the feed.