Usually means: Contract the same infection again.
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  1. reinfect: Merriam-Webster
  2. reinfect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reinfect: Collins English Dictionary
  4. reinfect: Wordnik
  5. reinfect: Wiktionary
  6. Reinfect: Dictionary.com
  7. Reinfect: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. reinfect: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Reinfect: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. reinfect: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. reinfect: FreeDictionary.org
  12. reinfect: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Reinfect: Legal dictionary

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  1. Reinfect: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. reinfect: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Reinfect: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (reinfect)

▸ verb:  infect again

Similar:
redisinfect, recontaminate, retransfect, reinseminate, reinfiltrate, repollute, redamage, resporulate, re-abuse, reinject, more...

Opposite:
immunize, vaccinate, protect

Types:
bacteria, virus, fungus, parasite, protozoa, prion, more...

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Similar:
redisinfect, recontaminate, retransfect, reinseminate, reinfiltrate, repollute, redamage, resporulate, re-abuse, reinject, more...

Opposite:
immunize, vaccinate, protect

Types:
bacteria, virus, fungus, parasite, protozoa, prion, more...



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