infected

Plural: infecteds

Verb

• communicate a disease to
  • "Your children have infected you with this head cold"
• contaminate with a disease or microorganism
• corrupt with ideas or an ideology
  • "society was infected by racism"
• affect in a contagious way
• simple past and past participle of infect

Adjective

• containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms

Adj

• Having an infection.

Noun

• One who has an infection.

Examples

• Slowly, the strange alien virus infected the whole town.
• The infected bodies were hastily piled up and burned.

Synonyms

infect, septic, taint

Antonyms

antiseptic, disinfect

Anagrams of infected