Definition of Reinfect

1. v. t. To infect again.

Definition of Reinfect

1. Verb. infect again ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reinfect

1. infect [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: infect

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reinfect

reindustrialisation
reindustrialise
reindustrialised
reindustrialises
reindustrialising
reindustrialization
reindustrialize
reindustrialized
reindustrializes
reindustrializing
reined
reinerite
reinette
reinettes
reinfarction
reinfect (current term)
reinfected
reinfecting
reinfection
reinfection tuberculosis
reinfections
reinfectious
reinfects
reinfestation
reinfestations
reinfiltrate
reinfiltrated
reinfiltrates
reinfiltrating
reinflame

Literary usage of Reinfect

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"They can reinfect only wheat and the other graminaceous hosts of the fungus but not the barberry. Toward autumn the same mycelium which produces ..."

2. Diseases of Women by Harry Sturgeon Crossen (1922)
"... be thoroughly cauterized, for if active virus is left at any point, it will reinfect the enlarged ulcer after the sloughs from cauterization separate. ..."

3. Manual of Fruit Diseases by Lexemuel Ray Hesler, Herbert Hice Whetzel (1917)
"... developed on the cedar, in that they cannot reinfect the quince, but may infect the cedars. About one year is required for the completion of the ..."

4. Manual of Fruit Diseases by Lexemuel Ray Hesler, Herbert Hice Whetzel (1917)
"... never reinfect the cedars. ... developed on the cedar, in that they cannot reinfect the quince, ..."

5. Selected articles on prohibition of the liquor traffic by Lamar Taney Beman (1915)
"... towns and wet counties will be found near by, and the virus there generated will pass over continuously and reinfect the dry town and the dry county. ..."

6. Report by Philippines Bureau of Health, Philippines Health Service, Philippines Bureau of Health, 1932-1935 (1908)
"The Pampanga epidemic, however, lasted long enough to reinfect Ha- ... The infection lasted long enough, however, to reinfect San Fernando December 4. ..."

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