infect
verb (used with object)
to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
were infecting
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past progressiveof infect.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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They are analyzing the genetic fingerprints of the virus samples taken now to trace chains of transmission and determine how commonly fully vaccinated people were infecting one another.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2021
That was how the cats were infecting one another and their caretakers: Yeasts in their wounds and saliva flew from cat to cat when they fought or jostled or sneezed.
From Scientific American ● May 18, 2021
About the only hives of human activity were the overwhelmed hospitals, where there were too few test kits for too many patients, who in turn were infecting others, including health care workers.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2020
It seems likely that we were infecting one another as we planned our response to coronavirus, until we got our social distancing house in order.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2020
Paul began to worry that if drug-resistant bacilli were infecting people in the slums, how long would it take before the disease spread across all of Lima?
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
