infect

中文： 传染、感染

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.
4. Of a computer virus: to insert its own code into (another executable file). (transitive)

He/she/it infects · 过去式 infected · 过去分词 infected · -ing形式 infecting