infected

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Related topics: Food, Illness & disability, Biology, Computers

1 DFMIa part of your body or a wound that is infected has harmful bacteria in it which prevent it from healing 〔身体部位或伤口〕受感染的 → disinfect

an infected finger

受感染的手指

Clean the wound so it doesn’t get infected.

清洗伤口以免感染。

2. MIHBfood, water etc that is infected contains bacteria that spread disease 〔食品、水等〕受细菌污染的

3. if a computer or disk is infected, the information in or on it has been changed or destroyed by a computer virus 〔计算机或磁盘〕受病毒感染的

Examples from the Corpus

infected• The cut on my foot became infected.• The water here is infected with cholera.

get infected• It is important that everyone helps stop more and more people getting infected.• Over the next 5-15 years, 1000s more soldier cells in the body get infected.• Some people get infected easily and die rapidly.• But it can get infected easily and I might not know it.• 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.• What went largely unreported, however, was the fact that most of the people getting infected were gay men.• With every child you had, you'd get infected with that baby's qualities.

in·fect·ed adjectiveadj

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See also: infect

BNC: 9070 COCA: 8099