infecting

5 definitions • 5 examples

present participle of

to pass a disease to a person, animal, or plant:

(be) infected with The ward was full of children infected with TB.

All the tomato plants are infected with a virus.

If a place, wound, or substance is infected, it contains bacteria or other things that can cause disease:

The meat had been infected by E coli bacteria.

to make someone have the same feeling or emotion as you:

Her optimism seemed to infect all those around her.

to pass harmful programs from one computer to another, or within files in the same computer:

A computer virus may lurk unseen in a computer's memory, calling up and infecting each of the machine's data files in turn.