資料來源 : pyDict
傳染,侵染;使受影響
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Infect \In*fect"\, a. [L. infectus: cf. F. infect. See {Infect},
v. t.]
Infected. Cf. {Enfect}. [Obs.] --Shak.
Infect \In*fect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Infected}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Infecting}.] [L. infectus, p. p. of inficere to put or
dip into, to stain, infect; pref. in- in + facere to make;
cf. F. infecter. See {Fact}.]
1. 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.
2. To affect with infectious disease; to communicate
infection to; as, infected with the plague.
Them that were left alive being infected with this
disease. --Sir T.
North.
3. 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. --Cowper.
Infected Ston's daughters with like heat. --Milton.
4. (Law) To contaminate with illegality or to expose to
penalty.
Syn: To poison; vitiate; pollute; defile.
資料來源 : WordNet®
infect
v 1: communicate a disease to; "Your children have infected you
with this head cold"
2: contaminate with a disease or microorganism [syn: {taint}]
[ant: {disinfect}]
3: contaminate with ideas or an ideology; "society was infected
by racism"
4: affect in a contagious way; "His laughter infects everyone
who is in the same room"