infected
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
infect/ɪnˈfekt/
▶verb affect (a person, organism, etc.) with a disease-causing organism.
■ Computing affect with a virus.
■ affect adversely.
– derivatives
infector noun.
infector noun.
– origin ME: from L. infect-, inficere ‘taint’, from in- ‘into’ + facere ‘put, do’.
'infected' also found in these Oxford entries:
botnet
- canker
- carry
- cholera
- cordon sanitaire
- cytomegalovirus
- gas gangrene
- Guinea worm
- hepatitis B
- hepatitis C
- infection
- killer cell
- measly
- pus
- reinfect
- root canal
- septic
- sinus
- trichinosis
- uninfected
- venereal disease
