Affected and Infected

Affected

Affected adjective - Lacking in natural or spontaneous quality.

Infected and affected are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Infected" instead an adjective "Affected".

Infected

Infected adjective - Containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms.

Affected and infected are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Affected" instead an adjective "Infected".

Nearby Words: infection, infective, infecting

Both words in one sentence

  • Super Empowering Croyd "the Sleeper" Crenson temporarily spread the Wild Card Virus; his strain is different from the original as it can reinfect the already infected and affected, although keeping the original 90 dead / 9 jokers / 1 ace distribution.
  • Video Game / Digimon World Dawn/Dusk For the Chief to be affected they and their Digimon had to be slowly infected by a virus and they recovered faster than the other affected characters.
  • Literature / Reflections of Eterna Only a few thousand citizens are not affected and their only salvation is to kill the infected to fight their way out.
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