The meaning of INFECTED is having an infection : contaminated with an infective agent (such as a bacterium or virus). How to use infected in a sentence.
To invade and proliferate in, often resulting in disease. Used of microorganisms or other infectious agents: people who were infected with salmonella. 2. To cause the invasion of (a cell, for example) with a microorganism or other infectious agent: The researchers infected the bacteria with a virus. 3.
Definition of infected adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
• The chance of getting infected from a pint of blood is less than 1 in a million. • These untidy wounds are about 50 times more likely to get infected than tidy ones.
When someone's infected, they've been exposed to an organism that causes a disease. It's too late for an infected person to get a flu vaccine — they already have the flu. In some cases, bodies of water can be described as infected, or contaminated with bacteria that can make people sick.
to affect with disease-producing germs: The germs had infected his wound. to affect the morals, opinions, emotions, etc., of others: His courage infected the other soldiers.
