Synonyms of the word

infect

• v. (transitive) To bring into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen).
• v. (transitive) To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion.
• adj. (obsolete) Infected.

affect

• v. (transitive) To influence or alter.
• v. (transitive) To move to emotion.
• v. (transitive) Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
• v. (transitive, archaic) To dispose or incline.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To assign; to appoint.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To aim for, to try to obtain.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To show a fondness for (something); to choose.
• v. (transitive) To make a show of; to put on a pretence of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display…
• n. (obsolete) One's mood or inclination; mental state.
• n. (obsolete) A desire, an appetite.
• n. (psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion,…

contaminate

• v. (transitive) To make something dangerous or toxic by introducing impurities or foreign matter.
• v. (transitive) To soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association.
• v. (transitive) To make unfit for use by the introduction of unwholesome or undesirable elements.
• v. To infect, often with bad objects.

corrupt

• adj. In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
• adj. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
• adj. In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
• v. (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave;…
• v. (intransitive) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
• v. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.
• v. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

debase

• v. (transitive) To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To lower in position or rank.
• v. (transitive) To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.

debauch

• n. An individual act of debauchery.
• n. An orgy.
• v. (transitive) To morally corrupt (someone); to seduce.
• v. (transitive) To debase (something); to lower the value of (something).

demoralise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of demoralize.

demoralize

• v. (American) To destroy morale; to dishearten.

deprave

• v. (transitive) To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.
• v. (transitive) To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt.

foul

• adj. Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
• adj. (of words or a way of speaking) obscene, vulgar or abusive.
• adj. Detestable, unpleasant.
• adj. Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.
• adj. (obsolete) Ugly; homely; poor.
• adj. (of the weather) Unpleasant, stormy or rainy.
• adj. Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
• adj. (nautical) Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.
• adj. (baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
• v. (transitive) To make dirty.
• v. (transitive) To besmirch.
• v. (transitive) To clog or obstruct.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To entangle.
• v. (transitive, basketball) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.
• v. (intransitive) To become clogged.
• v. (intransitive) To become entangled.
• v. (intransitive, basketball) To commit a foul.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.
• n. (sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing…
• n. (bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released…
• n. (baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.

give

• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
• v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
• v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
• v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
• v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
• v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
• v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
• v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
• v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
• v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
• v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
• v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
• v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
• v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
• v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
• v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
• v. To be going on, to be occurring.
• n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

impress

• v. (transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
• v. (intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.
• v. (transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).
• v. (transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
• v. To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
• v. (figuratively) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
• v. (transitive) To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.
• v. (transitive) To seize or confiscate (property) by force.
• n. The act of impressing.
• n. An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
• n. A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
• n. An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
• n. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
• n. A heraldic device; an impresa.
• n. The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which…

misdirect

• v. To direct something wrongly.
• v. To put the incorrect address on a mail item.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

pervert

• n. (dated) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense…
• n. A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.
• v. (transitive) To turn another way; to divert.
• v. (transitive) To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to…
• v. To misapply; to misinterpret designedly.
• v. (intransitive) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.

pollute

• v. (transitive) To make something harmful, especially by the addition of some unwanted product.
• v. (transitive) To make something or somewhere less suitable for some activity, especially by the introduction…
• v. (dated) To corrupt or profane.
• v. To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonour.
• adj. (rare) Polluted.

profane

• adj. Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
• adj. Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
• adj. Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
• adj. Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain.
• n. A person or thing that is profane.
• n. (freemasonry) A person not a Mason.
• v. (transitive) To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to…
• v. (transitive) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

strike

• v. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
• v. (heading, physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
• v. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
• v. (heading, personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
• v. To touch; to act by appulse.
• v. (heading, transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
• v. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
• v. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
• v. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
• v. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
• v. To make and ratify.
• v. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level…
• v. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
• v. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
• v. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
• v. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
• v. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
• v. To balance (a ledger or account).
• n. (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when…
• n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
• n. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
• n. A blow or application of physical force against something.
• n. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise…
• n. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
• n. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
• n. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
• n. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the…
• n. An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is…
• n. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
• n. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
• n. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
• n. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
• n. The discovery of a source of something.
• n. A strike plate.

subvert

• v. (transitive) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
• v. (transitive) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
• v. (transitive) To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
• n. An advertisement created by subvertising.

taint

• n. A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
• n. A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
• n. (obsolete) tincture; hue; colour.
• n. (obsolete) infection; corruption; deprivation.
• v. (transitive) To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
• v. (transitive) To spoil (food) by contamination.
• v. (intransitive) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
• v. (intransitive) To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
• v. (transitive, computing, programming) To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are…
• v. (transitive, Australia, finance) To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into…
• n. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
• n. An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an…
• v. (transitive) To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an…
• v. (transitive) To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
• v. (intransitive) To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
• n. (slang) The perineum.
• contract. Alternative spelling of 'taint.

vitiate

• v. (transitive) to spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.
• v. (transitive) to debase or morally corrupt.
• v. (transitive, archaic) to violate, to rape.
• v. (transitive) to make something ineffective, to invalidate.