infect
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
communicate a disease to
Your children have infected you with this head cold
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- contagion derivation
- infective derivation
- infectious derivation
Sense 2 verb
contaminate with a disease or microorganism
Types & categories
- pollute hypernym
- superinfect hyponym
- smut hyponym
Related & opposite
- disinfect antonym
- infection derivation
- infection derivation
- contamination derivation
- infective derivation
- infectious derivation
Sense 3 verb
corrupt with ideas or an ideology
society was infected by racism
Types & categories
- debauch hypernym
Sense 4 verb
affect in a contagious way
His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room
Types & categories
- impress hypernym
Related & opposite
- contagion derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | contagion |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | infective |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | infectious |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | give |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | canker |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | disinfect |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | infection |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | infection |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | contamination |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | infective |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | infectious |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | pollute |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | superinfect |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | smut |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | debauch |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | contagion |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | impress |