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infect

verb as in pollute, contaminate

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The question of how the virus probably jumped from bats to infect humans has been a mystery since the start of the outbreak.

If a nursing-home patient was infected at his home but died in a hospital, it wasn’t counted.

People may continue to get infected with the virus, but the infections are not as severe.

It has infected more than 100 million others, and new variants threaten another surge in cases even as vaccines have begun to roll out.

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You just don’t know if they’re infected, so, as difficult as that is, at least this time around, just lay low and cool it.

While the bats are infected, they shed large quantities of virus that can infect other animals.

Ebola Reston, it seemed, could infect humans, but never became symptomatic.

They had to infect the perfectly adequate data with the totally improbable idea of a 400-year-old heirloom elk antler tool.

But what I think is that this constant wound, that this constant sore, does infect all of our foreign policy.

Have you wondered how the U.S. managed to infect Iranian computers?

A very light attack of any of these diseases in one child may infect another fatally.

One child coming down with scarlet fever, measles, or whooping cough can infect twenty others at an afternoon party.

Spores of parasitic fungi enter the cracks, germinate and infect the heartwood.

Because the milk doth grow sour in the stomach, where evil humours are bred, and infect the breath.

It was necessary to infect them in the mass so that as individuals they might infect others with the fever to buy bonds.

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On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to infect, such as: affect, poison, taint, touch, blight, and corrupt.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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