infect
verb (used with object)
to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
are infecting
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present progressiveof infect.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Mold also uses these same lipid bubbles to deliver small, damaging RNAs into the plants they are infecting to suppress host immunity, an ability developed as part of a co-evolutionary arms race.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2023
“You are infecting everyone else!” the doctor reportedly screamed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2020
And recent studies have suggested that antibodies raised by these mutant egg-grown H3N2 vaccine viruses are unable to kill viruses that are infecting humans.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2017
These diseases are infecting people around the globe at an alarming rate.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2014
It is that we are infecting the Old World with what seems to be thought the entirely new disease of Democracy.
From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Charles William Eliot
