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INFECTING

9 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 18 pts

INFECTING is a valid 9-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 18 in Super Big Boggle.

INFECTING root INFECT-ing

verb
  1. transitiveTo 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.
    • Not everyone will be infected when an epidemic strikes.
  2. transitiveTo contaminate (an object or substance) with a pathogen.
  3. transitiveTo make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion, or to communicate a feeling to others, or a feeling communicating itself to others.
    • Her passion for dancing has infected me.
adjective
  1. obsoleteInfected.
  2. rareRepresenting an action not yet completed.