Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To infect again.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To infect again.

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  • verb infect again

Etymologies

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re- +‎ infect

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Examples

  • I didn't even get a kiss last night as Sam said we might 'reinfect' each other.

    madrigle Diary Entry madrigle 2003

  • The sellers in the shade I speak with at my seminars aren't sinister; they have no desire to reinfect any recovery in the housing market.

    Lita Smith-Mines: Sellers in the Shadows Lita Smith-Mines 2010

  • The sellers in the shade I speak with at my seminars aren't sinister; they have no desire to reinfect any recovery in the housing market.

    Lita Smith-Mines: Sellers in the Shadows Lita Smith-Mines 2010

  • The sellers in the shade I speak with at my seminars aren't sinister; they have no desire to reinfect any recovery in the housing market.

    Lita Smith-Mines: Sellers in the Shadows Lita Smith-Mines 2010

  • The sellers in the shade I speak with at my seminars aren't sinister; they have no desire to reinfect any recovery in the housing market.

    Lita Smith-Mines: Sellers in the Shadows Lita Smith-Mines 2010

  • This will ensure that the pimple will not reinfect.

    Best in Beauty Riku Campo 2010

  • The findings suggest that yellow-legged gulls, which often scavenge for discarded food, can reinfect humans through close contact.

    Responding to the Scent of Anxiety 2009

  • I'm staying home today, because I figure that I'm probably shedding virus, and I don't want to reinfect Dad or Fran or infect anyone at the pool.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Susan Palwick 2008

  • I'm staying home today, because I figure that I'm probably shedding virus, and I don't want to reinfect Dad or Fran or infect anyone at the pool.

    Battening Down Susan Palwick 2008

  • "Almost all patients will reinfect their new liver," says Teperman, director of transplants at New York University Medical Center.

    Risking Life To Give Life 2007

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