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What is the difference between infect and affect ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Infect is used for infections.
Example: Malaria could infect people from 10 meters away
Affect means to influence or have an impact on something
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to infect means to affect somebody with some virus or illness.
-You maybe infected your friend with the cold you had , so your friend is now sick.
to affect is something completely different:
to affect is basically the verb to "effect"; I was affected by the tragedy of the accident. --> The accident had an effect on me(probably an emotional effect in this case)
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