- present participle of infect.
infecting
Example Sentences
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Infecting smartphones or other gadgets being used for WhatsApp messages meant the content of messages encrypted during transmission could be accessed after they were unscrambled.
From Barron's • Oct. 18, 2025
Infecting organoids with rhinovirus nearly halted the growth of influenza A viruses added later.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 17, 2022
Infecting these animals with coronaviruses could potentially provide a more realistic sense of the risk that the viruses have of infecting humans than just using dishes of cells.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021
Infecting 20 or more people in a single go would give it a real chance of dominating its new community.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2021
O life, more loathsome to my vexed thoughts 278 Than noisome parbreak 279 of the Stygian snakes, Which fills the nooks of hell with standing air, Infecting all the ghosts with cureless griefs!
From Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Marlowe, Christopher
