Many of the doctors and nurses sleep at the hospital and avoid going home for fear of inadvertently infecting their families.
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Infecting
Synonyms for "infecting" (13 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Noun(3 words)
Strong matches (4)
Noun(4 words)
Related words (6)
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More general
12 entriesactionbiological phenomenonbiological processdiffusiondisease agentdisease inductionfigurative usagepathogenpathogenic processprocesspropagationtransitive verb
More specific
18 entriesairborne infectionanimal infectionbacteriabloodborne infectioncorrupting data integrityideavirusinoculationmeme propagationmicrobial colonizationparasitepathogenesisplant infectionrumor spreadspreading misinformationsystemic infectiontainting reputation
Showing 16 of 18 words.
Collocations
14 entriesact of infectingairborne infectionbloodborne infectioncontagious diseasedisease causinginfecting agentinfecting eventinfecting organisminfectious diseasepathogenic organismprocess of infectingrate of infectingtransmission routeviral infection
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
12 entriesSample sentences
5 total sentences available.
“Viruses are very good at disseminating throughout the body,” he said, adding that they’re also adept at hunting, detecting and infecting metastatic tumors.
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Gunter accused Rima of infecting many of her co-workers with Covid-19.
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A mass of maggots were infecting Gabriel's arm.
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