Synonyms of infecting

infecting

verb

present participle of infect

as in poisoning

to pass something harmful (such as a disease) to someone or something else

If you come to work when you're sick, you'll infect everyone in the office.

Related Words

• poisoning
• contaminating
• spoiling
• corrupting
• fouling
• giving
• transmitting
• spreading
• polluting
• communicating
• tainting
• imparting
• conveying
• defiling
• conducting
• transferring
• transfusing
• dirtying
• sullying
• rotting
• staining
• soiling
• smudging
• befouling
• blackening
• diluting
• muddying
• miring
• adulterating
• besmirching
• propagating
• disseminating
• doctoring
• diffusing
• smirching
• griming
• broadcasting
• fouling up
• begriming
• watering down
• delivering
• handing down
• surrendering
• handing on
• turning over
• handing over

Dissimilar Words

• sterilizing
• contracting
• catching
• purifying
• disinfecting
• cleaning
• sanitizing
• coming down (with)
• clearing
• decontaminating
• purging
• clarifying
• cleansing
• filtering
• distilling

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of infecting

An outbreak of the H5 influenza virus has spread rapidly throughout the Yakima Valley, infecting over 30 dairy herds and causing the death of at least one person. — Tom Sanders, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2026

All of this suggested there was something unique not about the infecting strain of the virus but instead about these individuals’ immune systems. — Diana Kwon, Vox, 11 Nov. 2026

Mice are also highly efficient at infecting the ticks that bite them with the Lyme bacterium. — Clarissa Brincat, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2026

The disease is now even infecting people in remote villages in the Amazon, Freitas says, and has emerged in other countries too. — Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 27 Oct. 2026

Produced by Yara Goubran) When a mysterious epidemic begins infecting women in a remote fishing village, fear quickly turns the community against them. — Essie Assibu, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026

Eventually, the capability could enable computer worms, which propagate without requiring human interaction and are capable of infecting unfamiliar IoT devices. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026

That includes Memory Integrity protection, which uses hardware-dependent methods to prevent malware from infecting OS processes. — Chris Hoffman, PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2026

In Vermont, federal researchers are hoping to save American elm trees by infecting young saplings with the fungal disease that has nearly exterminated the tall, once prevalent, East Coast trees. — Susanne Rust follow, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026