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How to pronounce “infect”
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Pronunciation guide for infect
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of infect with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language
reproducing and changing as they infect different people along social networks.
- Definition summary
- (transitive) 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.
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How to pronounce infect
Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language
reproducing and changing as they infect different people along social networks.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “infect”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive) 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) To contaminate (an object or substance) with a pathogen.
- (transitive) To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion, or to communicate a feeling to others, or a feeling communicating itself to others.
- [Adjective]
- (obsolete) Infected.
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