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

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

On the screen, the room glimpsed stitches from the emergency operations, the mold and pus infecting him, the brutal anti-glamour of a homicide victim. — Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026

But the 16 bacteria-infecting viruses described on August 6 in Science were no ordinary specimens. — Elie Dolgin, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Aug. 2026

Only the 2014–16 Ebola epidemic in West Africa has been larger and deadlier, infecting more than 28,600 people and killing 11,325 across Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. — Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026