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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
activated, autoluminescent, bad, cankered, charged, contaminated, corrupted, diseased, gangrened, gangrenous, hot, impure, irradiated, morbid, mortified, nonkosher, pathological, peccant, poisoned, polluted, radiferous, radioactivated, radioactive, radioluminescent, ritually unclean, septic, sphacelated, tainted, tref, ulcerated, ulcerous, unbathed, unclean, uncleanly, unpure, unscoured, unscrubbed, unswept, unwashed, unwiped
Dictionary Results for infected:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
infected
    adj 1: containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms;
           "a septic sore throat"; "a septic environment"; "septic
           sewage" [syn: septic, infected] [ant: antiseptic]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Infect \In*fect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Infected; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Infecting.] [L. infectus, p. p. of inficere to put or
   dip into, to stain, infect; pref. in- in + facere to make;
   cf. F. infecter. See Fact.]
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   1. To taint with morbid matter or any pestilential or noxious
      substance or effluvium by which disease is produced; as,
      to infect a lancet; to infect an apartment.
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   2. To affect with infectious disease; to communicate
      infection to; as, infected with the plague.
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            Them that were left alive being infected with this
            disease.                              --Sir T.
                                                  North.
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   3. To communicate to or affect with, as qualities or
      emotions, esp. bad qualities; to corrupt; to contaminate;
      to taint by the communication of anything noxious or
      pernicious. --Cowper.
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            Infected Ston's daughters with like heat. --Milton.
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   4. (Law) To contaminate with illegality or to expose to
      penalty.

   Syn: To poison; vitiate; pollute; defile.
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