Infect: alternatives and connections

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.

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Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

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To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to de…

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To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self b…

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To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in disciplin…

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To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.

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A bird.

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To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).

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To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies.

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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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To turnanother way; to divert.

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To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement.

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Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, rel…

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To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.

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To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exagger…

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A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker…

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Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.

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The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.

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The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.

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The act or process of infecting.

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The act or process of infecting.

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Infectious.

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Infectious.

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A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.

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To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous.

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To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous.

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