infested

Meaning

of Infest

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

alive overrun beset teeming crawling wormy infected swarming plagued ravaged ridden eczematous infester

Phrases with the word

be infested with mite infested coral-infested louse-infested be infested infested terran

Examples

Adopting biological warfare, the authorities culture Nine-day Fever and its cure in bulk sufficient to cover the country, and then infected slugs are allowed to escape into the heavily infested areas. Source: Internet

After moving in to her first house in second year, Raimondi was horrified to discover that it was infested with fleas. Source: Internet

Alaska Rat Island in Alaska was infested with brown rats after a Japanese shipwreck in 1780. Source: Internet

"Areas infested with tsetse flies are most suitable for livestock and crop production, meaning the fly poses a threat to the achievement of food security and nutrition," Dr Monda said. Source: Internet

At 163 Holland Park Avenue was an ill-lit lecture room and a bare-boarded and poky office some eight by ten feet—mainly infested by long haired men and short haired and tatty women." Source: Internet

By the 1860s it was apparent that wood sourced from some condemned slave ships (possibly a Brazilian ship) from the 1840s were infested by termites ("white ants"). Source: Internet