infecting

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

(rare, grammar, of a tense or verb form) Representing an action not yet completed.

(obsolete) Infected.

Roots

faciofect- · Latin · make, do

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