Hyphenation of infect

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word infect? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

in-fect

Definitions of infect:

1.	Communicate a disease to Your children have infected you with this head cold
2.	Contaminate with a disease or microorganism
3.	Corrupt with ideas or an ideology Society was infected by racism
4.	Affect in a contagious way His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room

Synonyms of infect:

verb	give
verb	taint, pollute, foul, contaminate
verb	corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect
verb	affect, impress, move, strike

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.