Definitions:

1. affect in a contagious way verb
   • Your laughter infects everyone who is in the same room as you.
2. communicate a disease to verb
   • Your children have infected you with this head cold
3. corrupt with ideas or an ideology verb
   • society was infected by racism

Synonyms:

• taint

NearBy Words:

• infected
• infection
• infectious
• infectiously
• infective