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infect

/in-fekt/US // ɪnˈfɛkt //UK // (ɪnˈfɛkt) //

感染,传染,感染者,濡染

Related Words

touch触摸,接触,碰,联系affect影响,影响到,受影响,受影响的taint污点,污垢,污污,污玷poison毒药,毒物,毒害,毒defile丑化,隘口,隘路,弄脏了influence影响力,影响,势力blight枯萎病,枯萎病症,枯萎症,枯萎病的发生vitiate废止,使之无效,使之失效,使之丧失活力spoil破坏,糟蹋,弄坏,弄坏了corrupt贪污,堕落,腐败,贪腐disease疾病,病症,病,患病

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to affect or contaminate with disease-producing germs.
    • : to affect with disease.
    • : to taint or contaminate with something that affects quality, character, or condition unfavorably: to infect the air with poison gas.
    • : to corrupt or affect morally: The news of the gold strike infected him with greed.
    • : to imbue with some pernicious belief, opinion, etc.
    • : to affect with a computer virus.
    • : to affect so as to influence feeling or action: His courage infected the others.
    • : Law. to taint with illegality, or expose to penalty, forfeiture, etc.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to become infected.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Archaic. infected.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbpollute, contaminate
Forms: infected, infecting
Synonyms
affect影响,影响到,受影响,受影响的poison毒药,毒物,毒害,毒taint污点,污垢,污污,污玷touch触摸,接触,碰,联系blight枯萎病,枯萎病症,枯萎症,枯萎病的发生corrupt贪污,堕落,腐败,贪腐defile丑化,隘口,隘路,弄脏了influence影响力,影响,势力spoil破坏,糟蹋,弄坏,弄坏了vitiate废止,使之无效,使之失效,使之丧失活力disease疾病,病症,病,患病spread among流传于,流传,流传于世,流传于此spread to蔓延至,蔓延到,扩散到,传播到

Examples

  • The question of how the virus probably jumped from bats to infect humans has been a mystery since the start of the outbreak.

  • If a nursing-home patient was infected at his home but died in a hospital, it wasn’t counted.

  • People may continue to get infected with the virus, but the infections are not as severe.

  • It has infected more than 100 million others, and new variants threaten another surge in cases even as vaccines have begun to roll out.

  • You just don’t know if they’re infected, so, as difficult as that is, at least this time around, just lay low and cool it.

  • While the bats are infected, they shed large quantities of virus that can infect other animals.

  • Ebola Reston, it seemed, could infect humans, but never became symptomatic.

  • They had to infect the perfectly adequate data with the totally improbable idea of a 400-year-old heirloom elk antler tool.

  • But what I think is that this constant wound, that this constant sore, does infect all of our foreign policy.

  • Have you wondered how the U.S. managed to infect Iranian computers?

  • A very light attack of any of these diseases in one child may infect another fatally.

  • One child coming down with scarlet fever, measles, or whooping cough can infect twenty others at an afternoon party.

  • Spores of parasitic fungi enter the cracks, germinate and infect the heartwood.

  • Because the milk doth grow sour in the stomach, where evil humours are bred, and infect the breath.

  • It was necessary to infect them in the mass so that as individuals they might infect others with the fever to buy bonds.

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