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infected

verb

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

adjective more infected · most infected

  1. Having an infection. The infected bodies were hastily piled up and burned.

noun infecteds

  1. One who has an infection. I = the number of infecteds, the people who are currently sick

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: septic, purulent, festering, pussy, putrid, dirty, contaminated, contagious, infectious, infection, hiv-positive, hiv, hcv, viral, virus, endemic

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adj having an infection

Españolinfectado, infecto
हिन्दीसंक्रमित saṅkramit
Françaisinfecté
Deutschinfiziert
Italianoinfetto
Românăinfectat
Русскийзаражённый zaražónnyj, инфици́рованный inficírovannyj

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@misc{infected_2026,
  title = {infected},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/infected},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}