in ‧ fect ‧ ed /ɪnˈfektəd, ɪnˈfektɪd/ BrE AmE adjective
[ Word Family: noun : ↑ infection , ↑ disinfectant ; adjective : ↑ infectious , ↑ infected ; verb : ↑ infect ≠ ↑ disinfect ; adverb : ↑ infectiously ]
1 . a part of your body or a wound that is infected has harmful ↑ bacteria in it which prevent it from ↑ heal ing ⇨ disinfect :
an infected finger
Clean the wound so it doesn’t get infected.
2 . food, water etc that is infected contains ↑ bacteria that spread disease
3 . if a computer or ↑ disk is infected, the information in or on it has been changed or destroyed by a computer ↑ virus