infected
adjective
1. containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms
Similar word(s): unhealthful, abscessed, dirty, pestiferous, contaminative, purulent, infectious, infective, putrefacient, putrefactive, septicemic, germy, septic
Sentences with infected as an adjective:
- The infected bodies were hastily piled up and burned.
verb
1. simple past tense and past participle of infect
- Slowly, the strange alien virus infected the whole town.