infect
verb (used with object)
to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
is infecting
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present progressiveof infect (3rd person singular).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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"This virus seems to be increasing in the numbers and types of humans it is infecting."
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2024
Scientists have since been watching for any signs that this bovine flu is infecting humans, as flus from birds and pigs sometimes do.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 24, 2023
The coronavirus is still killing about 40 people a day in California, and is infecting people at the level of a “very bad flu season,” said Dr. Timothy Brewer, an epidemiologist at U.C.L.A.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
The new Washington Commanders brand has become as toxic as a warning label on a bottle of poison, and it is infecting the rest of the league now.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
All the nastiness up at Molledal, all that stinking filth, is infecting the water in the conduit-pipes leading to the reservoir; and the same cursed, filthy poison oozes out on the shore too— Horster.
From An Enemy of the People by R. Farquharson (Robert Farquharson) Sharp
