infect
verb (used with object)
to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
will infect
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future tenseof infect.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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They calculated that the virus’s infectiousness—an estimate of how many people one contagious person will infect on average—is 2.1.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
Meanwhile, one person infected with the omicron variant BF.7 will infect another 10 to 18 people on average if they ignore any preventative factors like masks or isolating.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2022
Will is haunted by fear that his mother will infect the rest of his life, that he could become like her.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2022
By mid-February, Omicron will infect up to 40 percent of the U.S. population, one projection estimates, dwarfing the 8 percent that get sick from flu each season.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 11, 2022
“This island is covered with Devil’s Club. Don’t grab it or hundreds of tiny thistles will infect your hands and make them swell up like sausages.”
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
