Difference between Contaminate and Infect

CONTAMINATE vs INFECT: NOUN

To influence the semantic properties or phonological form of (a word or phrase); blend with.
To expose to or permeate with radioactivity.
To make impure or unclean by contact or mixture.
To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.

To invade and proliferate in, often resulting in disease. Used of microorganisms or other infectious agents.
To contaminate with a pathogenic microorganism or agent.
To cause the invasion of (a cell, for example) with a microorganism or other infectious agent.
To transmit a pathogen or disease to.
To become transmitted to and copied on (a hard drive, for example). Used of a virus or other harmful software.
To affect by transmission or be communicated to. Used of an idea, emotion, or attitude.
To taint with morbid matter or any pestilential or noxious substance or effluvium by which disease is produced
To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to.
To communicate to or affect with, as qualities or emotions, esp. bad qualities; to corrupt; to contaminate; to taint by the communication of anything noxious or pernicious.
To contaminate with illegality or to expose to penalty.

Synonyms To infect, poison, corrupt. See taint.
To render impure by mixture or contact; defile; pollute; sully; tarnish; taint; corrupt: usually in a figurative sense.
Contaminated; polluted; defiled; tainted; corrupt.

Infected; tainted; affected unfavorably.
Contaminated with illegality; having a flaw in the title.
Marred; discolored; darkened.
To affect as with something infused or instilled; imbue; impregnate; permeate: used especially of that which is bad or hurtful, but sometimes also of that which is good or indifferent.
Specifically To taint with disease or the seeds of disease, either physical or moral: as, to infect a person with smallpox; literature infected with immorality.
In philology, to affect the quality of a sound in a following or preceding syllable: used especially in reference to the influence of prominent vowels, and phonetic changes, in the Celtic language.
Synonyms To poison, pollute, defile.
In law, to taint or contaminate with illegality, or expose to penalty, seizure, or forfeiture.

Disinfect, Befoul, Corrode, Decontaminate, Enter, Spread, Pollution, Spoil, Affect, Poison, Polluted, Taint, Infect, Foul, Pollute

Gynecol, Immun, Lancet, Hit, Convey, Reach, Affect, Infectious, Transmit, Afflict, Infection, Contaminate, Revolutionize, Inspire, Taint

Defile, Ingest, Disinfect, Befoul, Enter, Spread, Pollution, Spoil, Affect, Poison, Polluted, Taint, Infect, Foul, Pollute

Infest, Reinfect, Lancet, Hit, Convey, Reach, Affect, Infectious, Transmit, Afflict, Infection, Contaminate, Revolutionize, Inspire, Taint

Information that could potentially contaminate a jury pool.
Implicitly contaminate all physicians to take the blood.
Contaminate the jury and cause a new trial.
Do not contaminate water by disposal of wastes.
This can potentially contaminate or damage your connector.
MARCH It is an offence to contaminate food.
The Safe Drinking Water Act affects projects that may contaminate aquifer recharge zones and controls underground injections that may contaminate drinking water supplies.
Your bag may be dirty and it may contaminate eating surfaces and consequently contaminate food.
So, the fear of kind of you know, what if I get germs and contaminate other people or contaminate myself.
Maximum CONTAMINATE SENSITIVITY: Contaminate sensitivity filter is enabled by default.

Some coronaviruses, such as canine and feline coronaviruses, infect only animals and do not infect humans.
Simic Infect: Infect creatures only need to deal ten points of damage to win the game, so pair them with pump spells and disruption.
A. All of these were perfectly able to infect and either refused to infect another host, or spread only under limited circumstances on FAT32.
Large DNA viruses have extended host ranges and the protists they infect harbour bacterial symbionts that also infect plants and animals.
Phages usually infect bacteria, viruses usually infect everything else.
The same roundworms, tapeworms, and hookworms that can infect your dog can also infect you.
You could be contagious without knowing it, and every person you infect can infect others.
Unlike previous viruses, macro viruses do not infect programs; they infect documents and templates.
As a result, viruses which infect bacteria, called bacteriophages, cannot infect human beings or other animals.
Viruses that infect animals have evolved the wherewithal to infect our species.