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cross-infect

cross-infect verb: to transfer an infection from one person to another.

Verb

cross-infect (third-person singular simple present cross-infects, present participle cross-infecting, simple past and past participle cross-infected)

  1. To transfer an infection from one person to another.

Forms of cross-infect

third-person singular presentcross-infects
present participlecross-infecting
past participlecross-infected
pastcross-infected

Questions about cross-infect

What does cross-infect mean?
Cross-infect means to transfer an infection from one person to another.
What part of speech is cross-infect?
Cross-infect is a verb.
What is the past tense of cross-infect?
The past tense of cross-infect is cross-infected.

Words near cross-infect in the dictionary

  1. cross-holdings
  2. cross-index
  3. cross-indexed
  4. cross-indexes
  5. cross-indexing
  6. cross-infect
  7. cross-infected
  8. cross-infecting
  9. cross-infection
  10. cross-infections
  11. cross-infects

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