infect vs superinfect

infect and superinfect both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
infect	No	No	Yes	No
superinfect	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, superinfect is a hyponym of infect; that is, superinfect is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than infect:

infect: contaminate with a disease or microorganism
superinfect: infect (an infected cell) further or infect a cell already containing similar organisms

Other hyponyms of infect include smut.

infect (verb)	superinfect (verb)
contaminate with a disease or microorganism	infect (an infected cell) further or infect a cell already containing similar organisms
communicate a disease to
affect in a contagious way
corrupt with ideas or an ideology