Definition: contaminate with a disease or microorganism
Similar words: foul, pollute, contaminate
Definition: make impure
Usage: The industrial wastes polluted the lake
Synonyms: infect
Definition: communicate a disease to
Usage: Your children have infected you with this head cold
Similar words: give
Definition: cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
Usage: She gave him a black eye; The draft gave me a cold
Synonyms: infect
Definition: affect in a contagious way
Usage: His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room
Similar words: affect, strike, move, impress
Definition: have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
Usage: This child impressed me as unusually mature; This behavior struck me as odd
Synonyms: infect
Definition: corrupt with ideas or an ideology
Usage: society was infected by racism
Similar words: debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, corrupt, subvert, profane, misdirect, pervert, vitiate
Definition: corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
Usage: debauch the young people with wine and women; Socrates was accused of corrupting young men; Do school counselors subvert young children?; corrupt the morals