Infect the area with cholera.
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Infect
//ɪnˈfɛkt//
Synonyms for "infect" (120 found)
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Closest matches (24)
Strong matches (36)
Related words (60)
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More general
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
Antonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
1 entriescoordinate
2 entriesderived
15 entriesmanner of
4 entriesrelated to
2 entriesTranslations
83 translations across 39 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- aansteek verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Arabic
1 entries- أَعْدَى verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Asturian
2 entries- contaxar verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- infestar verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Bulgarian
2 entries- заразявам verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- заразявам verb (to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion)
Catalan
2 entries- contagiar verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- infectar verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 傳染 /传染 verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- 感染 verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- 感染 verb (to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion)
Czech
2 entries- infikovat verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- nakazit verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Danish
1 entries- smitte verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Dutch
3 entries- besmetten verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- infecteren verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- infecteren verb (to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion)
Esperanto
1 entries- infekti verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Finnish
2 entries- tartuttaa verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- tartuttaa verb (to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion)
French
2 entries- infecter verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- infecter verb (to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion)
Galician
1 entries- infectar verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Georgian
4 entries- გადადება verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- გადადება verb (to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion)
- გადასდებს verb (to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion)
- გადასცემს verb (to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion)
German
4 entries- anstecken verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- anstecken verb (to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion)
- infizieren verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- infizieren verb (to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion)
Hungarian
3 entries- fertőz verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- megfertőz verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- megfertőz verb (to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion)
Ido
1 entries- infektar verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Irish
2 entries- galraigh verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- ionfhabhtaigh verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Italian
2 entries- contagiare verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- infettare verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Japanese
1 entries- 感染させる verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Khmer
1 entries- ឆ្លង verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Latvian
1 entries- inficēt verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Malay
1 entries- jangkit verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Māori
1 entries- whakapoke verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Norman
1 entries- înfecter verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Occitan
1 entries- infectar verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Polish
4 entries- zakazić verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- zakażać verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- zarazić verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- zarażać verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Portuguese
3 entries- contagiar verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- contagiar verb (to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion)
- infectar verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Quechua
1 entries- qatiy verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Romanian
3 entries- contagia verb (to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion)
- contamina verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- infecta verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Russian
4 entries- заража́ть verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- заража́ть verb (to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion)
- зарази́ть verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- зарази́ть verb (to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion)
Slovene
2 entries- okužiti verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- okužiti verb (to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion)
Spanish
4 entries- alborotar verb (to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion)
- contagiar verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- contagiar verb (to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion)
- infectar verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Swedish
3 entries- infektera verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- smitta verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- smitta verb (to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion)
Tamil
1 entries- தொற்று verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Thai
1 entries- ติดเชื้อ verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Tibetan
1 entries- རྣག་བསགས verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Vietnamese
3 entries- lan truyền verb (to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion)
- lây verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
- nhiễm verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Volapük
1 entries- näfätön verb (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
The virus can easily infect a healthy person.
Source: tatoeba (4827473)
"Tom, a brain worm is starting to infect tuna in the world's oceans," said Mary. "I'm not sure if that is true or if I just made that up. Maybe I have brain worms."
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New studies by the Global Virome Project, a worldwide effort to increase preparedness for pandemics, indicate the world can expect about five new animal-borne pathogens to infect humans each year, creating a sense of urgency to curb the wild animal trade.
Source: tatoeba (8658970)
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