infect

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen), so that the pathogen begins to act on the body; (of a pathogen) to come into contact with (a body or body part) and begin to act on it. transitive
    — Not everyone will be infected when an epidemic strikes.
  2. To contaminate (an object or substance) with a pathogen. transitive
  3. To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion, or to communicate a feeling to others, or a feeling communicating itself to others. transitive
    — Her passion for dancing has infected me.
形容词 adj.
  1. Infected. not-comparable,obsolete
    — And in the imitation of these twain, / Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns / With an imperial voice, many are infect.
  2. Representing an action not yet completed. not-comparable,rare

词形变化

infects present,singular,third-person infecting participle,present infected participle,past infected past

词汇关系

反义词
disinfect
衍生词
autoinfect camfecting coinfect infectability infectable infectee infectible infection infective infectome infector noninfecting reinfect superinfect uninfecting
相关词
infectious

词源

词源 1
From Middle French infect, from Latin infectus, perfect passive participle of inficiō (“dye, taint”).
词源 2
Borrowed from Latin īnfectus, equivalent to in- (“not”) + factus, perfect passive participle of faciō (“to do, make”).
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