- Contaminate with a disease - Pass a disease to - Infected. Cf. Enfect. - 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. - To affect with infectious disease; to communicate
infection to; as, infected with the plague. - 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. - To contaminate with illegality or to expose to penalty.