Usually means: Transmitting pathogens to another organism.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. infecting: Merriam-Webster
  2. infecting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. infecting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Infecting, infecting: Wordnik
  5. infecting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. infecting: Wiktionary
  7. Infecting, infecting: Dictionary.com
  8. infecting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Infecting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Infecting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Infecting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. infecting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. infecting: FreeDictionary.org
  14. infecting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. infecting: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. infecting: Encyclopedia

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

(Note: See infect as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (infect)

verb:  (transitive) To bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen), so that the pathogen begins to act on the body; (of a pathogen) to come into contact with (a body or body part) and begin to act on it.
verb:  (transitive) To contaminate (an object or substance) with a pathogen.
verb:  (transitive) To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion, or to communicate a feeling to others, or a feeling communicating itself to others.
adjective:  (obsolete) Infected.
adjective:  (rare, grammar, of a tense or verb form) Representing an action not yet completed.
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