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- verb Present participle of
reinfect .
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Examples
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Once we get it, I feel like we are constantly reinfecting ourselves.
Pink Is My Favorite Color . . . Laurie 2009
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Instead of having just twenty pigs to experiment and evolve in, the virus now has a pool of thousands, constantly infecting and reinfecting each other.
Johann Hari: Our Hunger for Cheap Meat Has Created Swine Flu 2009
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A situation where we have central group of men infecting and reinfecting each other through barebacking, with the most virulent and vicious strains of the virus spreading, almost creates a petri dish for incubating the HIV virus.
Johann Hari: The Biggest Threat to the Gay Community -- and No, It's Not Proposition 8 2008
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Nor does that stop family members from reinfecting the household water bucket with dirty hands or cups, a problem the CDC discovered during a major cholera epidemic in Latin America.
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The carrier virus would remain as a childhood disease, reinfecting each new generation -- infecting the Europeans, too, when they came, and eventually all of Africa and Asia and every island of the sea.
Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus Card, Orson Scott 1996
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To avoid the risk of reinfecting the cavity from the mouth, an opening may be made into the nose by removing a portion of the nasal wall of the sinus and part of the inferior turbinated bone, after which the incision in the buccal mucous membrane is closed with sutures.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Care must be taken to avoid reinfecting the raw surface.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Since syphilis was not eradicated (i.e. did not go to zero cases) the embers for reinfecting vulnerable sexual networks remained intact.
RHRealityCheck.org Peter Leone 2010
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Since syphilis was not eradicated (i.e. did not go to zero cases) the embers for reinfecting vulnerable sexual networks remained intact.
RHRealityCheck.org Peter Leone 2010
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I am down with yet another bout of the flu - we keep taking turns at reinfecting each other.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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