infect

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The result of weakening these security measures is that the computer is now very easy for another spyware program to infect, and there are even programs in existence that deliberatly target machines that are elready infected.

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  1. transitive verb To contaminate with a pathogenic microorganism or agent.
  2. transitive verb To communicate a pathogen or disease to.
  3. transitive verb To invade and produce infection in.

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  • The result of weakening these security measures is that the computer is now very easy for another spyware program to infect, and there are even programs in existence that deliberatly target machines that are elready infected. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • It will use the computer because the computer exists, but it will also use powers which are so completely unrelated to alienation or simulation that they guarantee a certain psychic paleolithism to the TAZ, a primordial-shamanic spirit which will "infect" even the Net itself (the true meaning of Cyberpunk as I read it). —  home
  • If you also own a copy of Resistance 2 for the PlayStation 3 - and if you're actually going to grab Retribution, there's a good chance you'll have one - connecting your PSP to the PS3 will "infect" your copy of Retribution. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • Henry B. Eyring, the senior counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said at the faith's semiannual General Conference that the divisions that come with increased conflict between people around the world could "infect" —  Starbulletin Headlines
  • As Dr. Greger points out in his book and video, Bird Flu: A virus of our own hatching, most of these diseases are zoonotics: diseases that can infect, and pass between, animals and humans. —  Avian Flu Diary
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English infecten, to afflict with disease, from Latin īnficere, īnfect-, to stain, infect (in-, in; see in-2 + facere, to do; see dhē- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Middle English infecten, enfecten, from Old French infecter, French infecter = Spanish Portuguese infectar = Italian infettare, infect, from Latin infectus past participle of inficere, put in, dip in, dye, mix, spoil, infect, from in, in, + facere, do, make: see fact. Cf. affect, confect, etc.
  2. from Middle English infect, enfecte, from Old French infect, from Latin infectus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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