Meanings (ES + gloss)
contagiar • infectar • inficionar
To bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen), so that the pathogen begins to act on the body; (of a pathogen) to come into contact with (a body or body part) and begin to act on it.
Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola.
Not everyone will be infected when an epidemic strikes.
alborotar • contagiar
To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion, or to communicate a feeling to others, or a feeling communicating itself to others.
Guido, by way of diverting the embarrassment which seemed to infect them all, began to unfasten the packet of letters.
Her passion for dancing has infected me.
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