Antonyms of verb infect

1 of 4 senses of infect

Sense 2
infect, taint -- (contaminate with a disease or microorganism)
       Antonym of disinfect (Sense 1)
      => disinfect -- (destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing; "disinfect a wound")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb infect

4 senses of infect

Sense 1
infect -- (communicate a disease to; "Your children have infected you with this head cold")
       => give -- (cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense; "She gave him a black eye"; "The draft gave me a cold")

Sense 2
infect, taint -- (contaminate with a disease or microorganism)
       => pollute, foul, contaminate -- (make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake")

Sense 3
infect -- (corrupt with ideas or an ideology; "society was infected by racism")
       => corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect -- (corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals")

Sense 4
infect -- (affect in a contagious way; "His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room")
       => affect, impress, move, strike -- (have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd")