Definition of infected

"infected" in the verb sense

1. infect

communicate a disease to

"Your children have infected you with this head cold"

2. infect, taint

contaminate with a disease or microorganism

3. infect

corrupt with ideas or an ideology

"society was infected by racism"

4. infect

affect in a contagious way

"His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room"

"infected" in the adjective sense

1. septic, infected

containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms

"a septic sore throat"

"a septic environment"

"septic sewage"

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Quotations for infected

An enthusiasm with which one or a mass of people is infected. [ German ]

All seems infected that the infected spy, and all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [ Pope ]

He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [ Horace ]

Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight. [ Emerson ]

infected in Scrabble®

The word infected is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters infected:

INFECTED
(153)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

enticed

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word infected

INFECTED
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In infected

INFECTED
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ENTICED
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infected in Words With Friends™

The word infected is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 16

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters infected:

INFECTED
(144)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

enticed

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word infected

INFECTED
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In infected

INFECTED
(144)
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(108)
ENTICED
(107 = 72 + 35)
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DEFECT
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(72)
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(69)
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Words within the letters of infected

2 letter words in infected (6 words)

3 letter words in infected (20 words)

5 letter words in infected (11 words)

6 letter words in infected (7 words)

7 letter words in infected (1 word)

8 letter words in infected (1 word)

infected + 1 blank (4 words)

Words containing the sequence infected

Words that start with infected (1 word)

Words with infected in them (1 word)

Word Growth involving infected

Shorter words in infected

in infect

Longer words containing infected

coinfected

disinfected undisinfected

noninfected

reinfected

superinfected

uninfected