English-Spanish translations for infect

• contagiar
  La carne fresca de animales vacunados porta virus, y podría contagiar a animales sanos que se alimentaran con desperdicios de estos mismos. Fresh meat from vaccinated animals carries the virus and may infect healthy animals that feed on swill containing it.
• alborotar
• infectar
  Esta bacteria suspendida en el aire y altamente contagiosa puede infectar a 10 ó 15 otras personas antes de que se adviertan los síntomas. This highly contagious, airborne bacterium can infect ten to fifteen other people before the symptoms are noticed.
  Se les acusa de infectar deliberadamente a cientos de niños libios con el virus VIH. They are accused of deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV.
  O peor todavía, que ocuparse de los pacientes infectados por el VIH podría infectar realmente al trabajador sanitario. Or, even worse, that taking care of patients who are HIV-positive could actually infect the healthcare worker.

Definition of infect

• To bring into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen
• To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion
• Infected

Examples

• Not everyone will be infected when an epidemic strikes
• Her passion for dancing has infected me

Related words

• infectious
• disinfectant
• disinfection
• disinfect
• infection
• infectiousness
• infecting
• infected
• disinfecting