Difference between Affect and Infect

What is the difference between Affect and Infect?

Affect as a verb is to influence or alter. while Infect as a verb is to bring into contact with a substance that can cause illness (a pathogen)

Affect

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Emotion. External display of emotion or mood.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To influence or alter. To move to emotion. Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body). To aim for, to try to obtain. To feel affection for; to like, be fond of. To make a false display of.

Infect

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to bring into contact with a substance that can cause illness (a pathogen)to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion

We hope you now know whether to use Affect or Infect in your sentence.

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