Superlative for affected with an infectious disease
“There will be an obvious visible white mycelial mat, and it's also possible that mushrooms will grow at the base of an infected tree.”
Superlative for filled with pus
“She bounced before me in an absurd fashion, scratching at her slinky, bare stomach just below the hem of her belly shirt, where an infected and pus-filled red blotch was trying to heal.”
Superlative for impure, contaminated with undesirable elements or substances
“The bulk of the evidence strongly suggests that the infected water was pumped into the drinking-water tank.”
Superlative for affected or influenced by something, especially ideas
“Infected by the ideology that arose during the war, their goal was to derange the body politic, to confuse the people.”
Superlative for involving or caused by a physical or mental disease
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