Verb (used with object) : to infect the air with poison gas. ,The news of the gold strike infected him with greed. ,His courage infected the others. From Dictionary.com.
This will ensure that the pimple will not reinfect. From Wordnik.com. [Best in Beauty] Reference
And you could reinfect that person with a different strain. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 28, 2004] Reference
If you leave one user infected, they may reinfect the others. From Wordnik.com. [News from the House of Sticks -] Reference
The baby needs treatment too otherwise he will reinfect his mother's nipples. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 37] Reference
And, rumor has it that this patch will reinfect a machine that was previously cleansed of the malware. From Wordnik.com. [Sony releases PR "patch" for its DRM malware that doesn't address the problems] Reference
"Almost all patients will reinfect their new liver," says Teperman, director of transplants at New York University Medical Center. From Wordnik.com. [Risking Life To Give Life] Reference
The findings suggest that yellow-legged gulls, which often scavenge for discarded food, can reinfect humans through close contact. From Wordnik.com. [Responding to the Scent of Anxiety] Reference
The sellers in the shade I speak with at my seminars aren't sinister; they have no desire to reinfect any recovery in the housing market. From Wordnik.com. [Lita Smith-Mines: Sellers in the Shadows] Reference
They are talking to a lot of border countries to make sure that migratory birds are not allowed to reinfect or spread that deadly strain of bird flu. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2006] Reference
We know the rain water running down the trunk dissolves these spore masses, and they are carried down, there to reinfect the tree when insects crawl around. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911] Reference
They, in turn, discharge the orally ingested pathogens (disease causing agents) which then wind up in the water cycle, reproduce, reinfect, etc.Fig. 1: The natural hydrologic cycle. From Wordnik.com. [1. Treatment of Drinking Water an Introduction to the Subject] Reference
Gorillas can reinfect humans with malaria even after eradication. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to AFRICA: Rotavirus data must propel immunization - experts] Reference
But the next time that you plug in your display frame, you reinfect the machine!. From Wordnik.com. [iTWire - Latest Headlines] Reference
They don't need to reinfect your computer because they already have all of your info. From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
But I tell you men, also, that unless she find that antidote she will surely reinfect herself. From Wordnik.com. [The Fighting Chance] Reference
Can viruses remain in other hardware components to reinfect replacement parts, like the new hard drive?. From Wordnik.com. [PC Magazine: New Product Reviews] Reference
This might in turn reinfect banks in East Asia that have so far remained largely aloof from the troubles that have hammered Western banks. From Wordnik.com. [The Australian | News |] Reference
A recent outbreak in turkeys in Chile has sparked concern that it might combine with the deadlier H5N1 strain of bird flu and reinfect humans. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I'm staying home today, because I figure that I'm probably shedding virus, and I don't want to reinfect Dad or Fran or infect anyone at the pool. From Wordnik.com. [Rickety Contrivances of Doing Good] Reference
"In some cases it's possible that we will find that calicivirus is not circulating in the population, so we can reinfect rabbits," explains Peacock. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"We're very concerned about these ethnic militias and the potential, if Dadis were to return, of a civil war that would spill over the borders and reinfect Sierre Leone and Liberia,". From Wordnik.com. [Taipei Times] Reference
"We're very concerned about these ethnic militias and the potential, if Dadis were to return, of a civil war that would spill over the borders and reinfect Sierre Leone and Liberia," Fitzgerald said. From Wordnik.com. [Raw Story] Reference
As for backups, if you have malware or any corruption that has been saved in a restore point you can reinfect or replace the corruption if you choose a point in time when you were infected or corrupt. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"clean" system home and if they happen to reinfect themselves an hour later, we can't help them. From Wordnik.com. [Discussion Forum - Geeks!] Reference
Not that it’ll help, Geordi thought with silent amusement, because the nanites that the captain instructed to remain in reserve will come out and reinfect them within a few hours. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Mirror] Reference
But don’t squeeze your pores; you might get rid of some of the blackheads or whiteheads, but if they are not eliminated properly which can easily happen, bacteria will form in the pores and you will reinfect them, resulting in even more inflamed blemishes. From Wordnik.com. [Best in Beauty] Reference
Another batch of exceptions consists of words in which both the e and the i are sounded: absenteeism, agreeing, albeit, atheist, being, contemporaneity, fleeing, freeing, guaranteeing, pedigreeing, plebeian, reify, reimburse, reincarnate, reinfect, reinforce, reinstate, reinsure, reintegrate, reinterpret, reinvent, reinvest, reissue, reiterate, seeing, simultaneity, spontaneity, teeing, and treeing. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 1] Reference
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