infected

Verb

simple past tense and past participle of infect
Slowly, the strange alien virus infected the whole town.

Adjective

(comparative more infected, superlative most infected)

referring to something that has received an infection
The infected bodies were hastily piled up and burned.

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The other lung was infected and they had switched to yet another antibiotic.
The horse's terror infected the men.
They infected the animals in the town with the vamp disease.
In cases where the water supply is known to be infected, or even where it is merely doubtful, it is wise to have recourse to sterilization by boiling, rather than trust to any filter.
The Extreme Left was infected by the fanaticism of Kossuth, who condemned the compromise and refused to take the benefit of the amnesty, while the prelates and magnates who had originally opposed the compromise were now to be found by the side of Deal(and Andrassy.

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