i 1 n 1 f 4 e 1 c 3 t 1
6 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb communicate a disease to
verb contaminate with a disease or microorganism
verb corrupt with ideas or an ideology
originBorrowed from Latin īnfectus, equivalent to in- (“not”) + factus, perfect passive participle of faciō (“to do, make”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0