infecting

Meaning of infecting

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. affect (a person, organism, etc.) with a disease-causing organism.
    pregnant women who may have been infected with the virus

late Middle English: from Latin infect- ‘tainted’, from the verb inficere, from in- ‘into’ + facere ‘put, do’.

Information about infecting

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of infecting

in-fect-ing

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • infecting is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

infecting synonyms

Meaning make (something) impure by exposure to or addition of a poisonous or polluting substance:

contaminate

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