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infected

1. simple past and past participle of infect

   Slowly, the strange alien virus infected the whole town.

infected (comparative more infected, superlative most infected)

1. Having an infection.

   The infected bodies were hastily piled up and burned.

infected (plural infecteds)

1. One who has an infection.
   • 2017, Deborah Hughes-Hallett, Andrew M. Gleason, Patti Frazer Lock, Applied Calculus, page 427:

     I = the number of infecteds, the people who are currently sick

   • 2019, Marcus Martin, Convulsive: The Complete Series:

     Some infecteds tried to pick their way through the debris, but shards of brick cut their bare feet.