Explore Infected through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like septic or germy. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Infected meaning
simple past and past participle of infect
Synonyms of Infected
Using Infected
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of infect
- Useful related words include: septic, germy, septicemic, putrefacient.
- In the example corpus, infected often appears in combinations such as: infected with, an infected, been infected.
Context around Infected
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 12 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Infected
- In this selection, "infected" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, people, get, multiple, person, animal and premises stand out and add context to how "infected" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 000 people infected over a, a persistently infected calf if, infected person, become infected and infected people. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "infected" sits close to words such as occurs, containing and solo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with infected
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Someone can be infected by spores from a dead body of an infected person. (14 words)
While humans cannot be infected, they are advised to avoid consuming the meat of an infected animal. (17 words)
And that is about when the president was infected, who infected him and who he may have infected. (18 words)
Infected can be a terrifying game mode in which players must survive for as long as possible, trying to beat out the growing hordes of infected players that will try and beat players to death with their overwhelming numbers and quickening speeds. (42 words)
What’s more, when the researchers looked at individual patients, they found that people infected with influenza A were 70 percent less likely to also be infected with rhinovirus, compared with patients infected with other types of viruses. (38 words)
Along with the great casting, trailer shows glimpses of some updated infected who look even more dangerous than in the previous installations, confirming that in the intervening years, the infected have evolved to become even more dangerous. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Rat King is not necessarily one infected, but a conglomeration of multiple Infected likely made up of some of the original Infected in Seattle.
And that is about when the president was infected, who infected him and who he may have infected.
What’s more, when the researchers looked at individual patients, they found that people infected with influenza A were 70 percent less likely to also be infected with rhinovirus, compared with patients infected with other types of viruses.
Someone can be infected by spores from a dead body of an infected person.
We have a challenge – once animals are infected, they’re infected for life, so if you test for Theileria in an endemic area, it’s quite possible you will have positive animals.
While humans cannot be infected, they are advised to avoid consuming the meat of an infected animal.
A Defra spokesperson added: "All infected premises have been placed under restriction and susceptible animals can only be moved under licence from infected premises.
Along with the great casting, trailer shows glimpses of some updated infected who look even more dangerous than in the previous installations, confirming that in the intervening years, the infected have evolved to become even more dangerous.
A person may catch the disease from an infected animal through contaminated milk or by handling the fetus, placenta, or fluids from an infected animal that had given birth.
If an animal is between approximately 30 and 120 days in-calf, it will be susceptible to BVD infection and the creation of a Persistently Infected calf if it contacts an animal or material infected with BVD.
Infected can be a terrifying game mode in which players must survive for as long as possible, trying to beat out the growing hordes of infected players that will try and beat players to death with their overwhelming numbers and quickening speeds.
Over 1,500 devices were infected with the ToxicPanda trojan and users from Italy were the most impacted — more than 50 percent of all infected devices.
Stuart Hall from Stainburn in Workington was infected with hepatitis C infected blood via blood transfusions whilst undergoing treatment for leukaemia in the 1980s.
Vanessa Hebditch, director of communications and policy at another charity, The British liver Trust, said people infected this way, like many victims of the infected blood scandal, deserve better.
When the surviving caterpillars emerge from their winter webs, they can become infected by the fungus by crawling over the infected caterpillars that died in the winter webs.
A growing number of cases in California, Washington state and Oregon are confounding authorities because the infected people hadn’t recently traveled overseas or had any known close contact with a traveler or an infected person.
And if each infected person transmits to even just one other person, there could be 80,000 people infected over a couple of weeks.
And when the hamsters were protected with simulated masking, they "were less likely to get infected, and if they did get infected, they either were asymptomatic or had milder symptoms than unmasked hamsters," the experts noted.
But, if they stood three feet away from an infected person in the same hour for more than six hours, only 1.6 per cent were infected in the same time frame.
By not identifying those who are infected but don’t have symptoms, spread of the virus will increase as those who don’t know they are infected, infect others.
Phrases with infected
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with infected
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- infected with 52×
- an infected 19×
- been infected 19×
- infected by 18×
- the infected 18×
- infected person 15×
- be infected 14×
- become infected 13×
- of infected 11×
- infected people 11×