Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To infect again.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To infect again.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb
infect again
Etymologies
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Examples
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I didn't even get a kiss last night as Sam said we might 'reinfect' each other.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This will ensure that the pimple will not reinfect.
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The findings suggest that yellow-legged gulls, which often scavenge for discarded food, can reinfect humans through close contact.
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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.
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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.
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"Almost all patients will reinfect their new liver," says Teperman, director of transplants at New York University Medical Center.
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