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[in-fekt] / ɪnˈfɛkt /


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Flesh Eating Bacteria Can Infect Anyone – What You Should Know Necrotizing fasciitis, commonly known as flesh eating bacteria, infects various layers of the skin.

From Scientific American • Sep. 23, 2012

Infect: The spyware captures and copies the phone’s most basic functions, NSO marketing materials show, recording from the cameras and microphone and collecting location data, call logs and contacts.

From Washington Post

Infect: The spyware captures and copies the phone’s most basic functions, NSO marketing materials show, recording from the cameras and microphone and collecting location data, call logs and contacts.

From Washington Post

Infect, in-fekt′, v.t. to taint, especially with disease: to corrupt: to poison.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

O blessed breeding sun, draw from the earth Rotten humidity; below thy sister's orb Infect the air!

From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil)




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