Hypertext Webster Gateway: "infected"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Infect \In*fect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Infected}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Infecting}.] [L. infectus, p. p. of inficere to put or
dip into, to stain, infect; pref. in- in + facere to make;
cf. F. infecter. See {Fact}.]
1. To taint with morbid matter or any pestilential or noxious
substance or effluvium by which disease is produced; as,
to infect a lancet; to infect an apartment.
2. To affect with infectious disease; to communicate
infection to; as, infected with the plague.
Them that were left alive being infected with this
disease. --Sir T.
North.
3. To communicate to or affect with, as qualities or
emotions, esp. bad qualities; to corrupt; to contaminate;
to taint by the communication of anything noxious or
pernicious. --Cowper.
Infected Ston's daughters with like heat. --Milton.
4. (Law) To contaminate with illegality or to expose to
penalty.
Syn: To poison; vitiate; pollute; defile.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
infected
adj 1: contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds";
"obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen [syn:
{contaminated}, {dirty}]
2: having undergone infection; "festering sores"; "an infected
wound" [syn: {festering}, {purulent}, {pussy}, {putrid}]
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