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infect

English

  1. 🔊 contaminate with a disease or microorganism
  2. 🔊 communicate a disease to
    “Your children have infected you with this head cold”
  3. 🔊 affect in a contagious way
    “His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room”
  4. 🔊 corrupt with ideas or an ideology
    “society was infected by racism”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 contagiar to infect
  2. 🔊 infeccionar to infect
  3. 🔊 inficionar to infect
  4. 🔊 inquinar to infect
  5. 🔊 alborotar to infect, ballyhoo (make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion)

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