infect-infecter: meaning, definitions and translations

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What is infect?infect is infecter

What is infecter?

  • To contaminate with a pathogenic microorganism or agent.
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  • To communicate a pathogen or disease to.
    Pour communiquer un agent pathogène ou une maladie à.
  • To invade and produce infection in.
    Pour envahir et produire une infection dans.
  • To contaminate or corrupt: envy that infected their thoughts; a society that was infected by racism.
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  • To affect in a contagious way: "His fear infected me, and . . . I followed as fast as I could” ( W.H. Hudson).
    Pour affecter de manière contagieuse :