Meaning

2 senses
  1. (not comparable, rare)Representing an action not yet completed.

  2. (not comparable, obsolete)Infected.

Examples

197 sentences
  1. What happens if we get infected?

    ruЧто будет, если мы заразимся? — corvard

  2. Some infected people never even get sick.

  3. Tom's computer got infected by a virus.

  4. Many infected people don't even feel sick.

  5. I have an infected cut on my foot.

Origin

From Middle French infect, from Latin infectus, perfect passive participle of inficiō (“dy

From Middle French infect, from Latin infectus, perfect passive participle of inficiō (“dye, taint”).

Borrowed from Latin īnfectus, equivalent to in- (“not”) + factus, perfect passive participle of faciō (“to do, make”).

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