| Information | |
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| has gloss | (verb) contaminate with a disease or microorganism infect, taint |
| lexicalization | eng: infect |
| lexicalization | eng: taint |
| subclass of | (verb) make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" foul, contaminate, pollute |
| has subclass | (verb) infect (an infected cell) further or infect a cell already containing similar organisms superinfect |
| has subclass | (verb) affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn smut |
| Meaning | |
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| Asturian | |
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| lexicalization | ast: infectar |
| Catalan | |
| lexicalization | cat: infectar |
| lexicalization | cat: infeccionar |
| German | |
| lexicalization | deu: beschmutzen |
| lexicalization | deu: kontaminieren |
| Modern Greek (1453-) | |
| lexicalization | ell: μολύνω |
| Esperanto | |
| lexicalization | epo: infekti |
| lexicalization | epo: makuli |
| Basque | |
| lexicalization | eus: infektatu |
| Finnish | |
| lexicalization | fin: saastuttaa |
| French | |
| lexicalization | fra: infecter |
| lexicalization | fra: contaminer |
| Croatian | |
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| lexicalization | hrv: kužiti |
| Hungarian | |
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| lexicalization | hun: hajlam betegségre |
| lexicalization | hun: megfertõzõdik |
| lexicalization | hun: bemocskol |
| Armenian | |
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| lexicalization | hye: վարակ(վ)ել |
| lexicalization | hye: ախտահարել |
| Italian | |
| lexicalization | ita: infettare |
| lexicalization | ita: contaminare |
| Korean | |
| lexicalization | kor: 더럽히다 |
| Latin | |
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| lexicalization | lat: inficere |
| lexicalization | lat: inficio |
| Dutch | |
| lexicalization | nld: aansteken |
| lexicalization | nld: infecteren |
| Occitan (post 1500) | |
| lexicalization | oci: infectar |
| Portuguese | |
| lexicalization | por: infectar |
| lexicalization | por: contaminar |
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| lexicalization | por: infetar |
| Moldavian | |
| lexicalization | ron: infecta |
| Slovak | |
| lexicalization | slk: nakaziť |
| Swedish | |
| lexicalization | swe: besmitta |
| lexicalization | swe: förorena |
| Turkish | |
| lexicalization | tur: bozmak |
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| lexicalization | tur: hastalýk bulaþtýrmak |
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| opposite | (verb) destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing; "disinfect a wound" disinfect |
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