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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A new, highly contagious strain of the virus is infecting birds around the world.
From BBC ● Feb. 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
Scientists have detected the same H5N1 virus that is infecting poultry in more than 3,000 wild birds during this outbreak, compared with 75 detections during the 2014-2015 outbreak.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2022
That’s because every person sick with BQ.1.1 is infecting an average of 1.4 other people, while those sick with BA.5 are averaging an infection of less than one other person.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 1, 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
