To contaminate (an object or substance) with a pathogen.
To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion, or to communicate a feeling to others, or a feeling communicating itself to others.
Her passion for dancing has infected me.
Infected.
And in the imitation of these twain, / Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns / With an imperial voice, many are infect.
Representing an action not yet completed.
From Middle French infect, from Latin infectus, perfect passive participle of inficiō (“dye, taint”).
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