Definition: 1. Communicate a disease to. 2. Contaminate with a disease or microorganism. 3. Contaminate with ideas or an ideology. 4. Affect in a contagious way.
Use 'infect' in a sentence:
1. Today I tried to infect a boy in a primary school all day.
2. The wound was infected with germs.
3. Bad faith can infect our entire lives. We can live in bad faith.
4. Not every flu virus can infect every animal.
5. The preferences for one program would infect the other program.
6. Dig out and burn infected canes.
7. There is, however, a chance that the virus will infect the bilby, an endangered native marsupial.
8. HCV is among the most common viruses that infect the liver.
9. Don't worry. I never infect.
10. She infected the whole class with her laughter.
11. We have found seven types of corona-virus that can infect humans so far.
12. Badly infected trees should be felled and burned.
13. Anyone with a bad cold may infect the people around him.
14. The whole room was infected by the smell of coal.
15. For an instant I was infected by her fear.
16. The whole category of diarrheal diseases, caused by viruses called enteroviruses. They infect your gut.
17. These crystals reenter the environment after the insect dies and decomposes, thus becoming available to infect other caterpillars.
18. Once ingested by a caterpillar, the crystals dissolve, releasing the virus to infect the insect's cells.
19. H5N1 is the only strain within the H5 subtype known to infect humans.
20. Ebola was so deadly and killed so quickly that within a short period of time, there was no one around to infect.
21. His creativity would infect other students.
22. You'll be given regular blood tests to show whether you have been infected.
23. They are also differentiated by what animal they usually infect.
24. It can't infect us.
25. He thought they might infect others with their bourgeois ideas.
26. A single mosquito can infect a large number of people.
27. Meanwhile, the deadliest strains of the virus perished with their hosts as natural selection favored strains that could infect hosts but not kill them.
28. One was made by man to infect computers.
29. They had walled up her room because of the fear that things might be infected.
30. The other was made by nature, and could infect man.
31. Then they transform and infect red blood cells.
32. Otherwise the disease will infect the whole body.
33. I didn't pay attention to it because I never infected.
34. Magnaporthe grisea would infect rice.
35. Not only do tears keep your eyes lubricated, but they also contain a substance that kills certain bacteria so they can't infect your eyes.
36. She infected the children with her enthusiasm for music.
37. His urge for revenge would never infect her.
38. A newer anti-HIV drug called pyridinone caused HIV to mutate into a form which could not reproduce or infect new cells.
39. The virus is not killed so it's a live virus, which is actually going to infect your intestinal system and reproduce.
40. It is feasible to utilize Beauveria bassiana carried by Scleroderma sichuanensis Xiao to infect Monochamus alternatus larva voluntarily.
41. The drug will be useful to hundreds of thousands of infected people.
42. Bathe the infected area in a salt solution.
43. The birds infect the milk.
44. The wound from the dog bite had become infected.
45. When an infected mosquito bites a human, spores are injected into the blood.
46. The infected cells then migrate to other areas of the body.
47. Dog bites can get infected.
48. It infected them with some of the magic of a lost age.
49. This virus infected thousands of computers within days.
50. As many as ten-million children will have been infected with the virus by the end of the decade.
51. It is not possible to infect another person through kissing.
52. There is a 60% probability that the population will be infected with the disease.
53. In heavily infected areas, half the population become blind.
54. Biomedical research will enable many individuals infected with HIV to live longer, more comfortable lives.
55. The white blood cells attack cells infected with an invader.
