Infest

Word INFEST
Character 6
Hyphenation in fest
Pronunciations /ɪnˈfɛst/

Definitions and meanings of "Infest"

What do we mean by infest?

To inhabit or overrun in numbers or quantities large enough to be harmful, threatening, or obnoxious. transitive verb

To live as a parasite in or on. transitive verb

Hostile; hurtful; mischievous; harassing; troublesome.

To attack; molest; harass; haunt or prowl around mischievously or hurtfully; attack parasitically.

Synonyms To annoy, harass, torment, plague, vex, molest, overrun.

To become confirmed in evil; become habitually vicious.

Mischievous; hurtful; harassing. adjective

To trouble greatly by numbers or by frequency of presence; to disturb; to annoy; to frequent and molest or harass transitive verb

To be mischievous; to be hurtful; to be harassing. verb

Invade in great numbers verb

Live on or in a host, as of parasites verb

Occupy in large numbers or live on a host verb

Hostility.

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The word "infest" in example sentences

Taking your memories as correct -- which they may not be; you could be recalling pieces of delirium -- you should be able to entertain the possibility that you and your friends had the bad luck to meet fools and brutes such as infest every outfit. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1974)

They feed mostly on very small insects and eggs, such as infest the bark of trees, but will eat almost anything offered them; even meat they will peck from ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

The food of the various Greenlets or Vireos is made up almost entirely of insects, of which a large per cent are caterpillars, such as infest shade trees and the larger shrubs. ❋ Various (1891)

Here were no cackling old women, or groaning Methodists, such as infest our English churches, and scare one's ears with hoarse coughs accompanied by the naso obligato. ❋ Beckford, William (1891)

Some of these false notes proceed simply from the immense growth of every sort of facilitation -- so that people are much more free than of old to come and go and do, to inquire and explore, to pervade and generally "infest"; with a consequent loss, for the fastidious individual, of his blest earlier sense, not infrequent, of having the occasion and the impression, as he used complacently to say, all to himself. ❋ Henry James (1879)

When it exists in connexion with an epidemic of fever, the development of malarial poison, or those debilitating influences which are the prolific sources of typhoids, and typhus, such as infest crowded camps, ill-ventilated Hospitals, and the confined Burden Cars in which soldiers are so frequently transported. ❋ Unknown (1863)

This consists, for the most part, of caterpillars, particularly such as infest apple-trees. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

At the game of auctions, docks, shy wine-merchants, depend on it there is no winning; and I would as soon think of buying jewellery at an auction in Fleet Street as of purchasing wine from one of your dreadful needy wine-agents such as infest every man's door. ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)

At the game of auctions, docks, shy wine-merchants, depend on it there is no winning; and I would as soon think of buying jewellery at an auction in Fleet Street as of purchasing wine from one of your dreadful needy wine-agents such as infest every man’s door. ❋ Unknown (2006)

England does not have a significant number of fundamentalist nutters such as infest the GOP here. " ❋ Unknown (2009)

We talked on, and he gave me many details of that particular happening, and of other happenings at sea on the part of the lunatics that seem to infest the sea. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In NYS bow hunters have close to 90-days to infest the Uplands and Woods. 30-days prior to opening on Deer Gun Season …. and during the pheasant season …. are enough time to put most deer on guard and turn them into nocturnal movers and feeders. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Oh! "l'odeur des choux" that are no longer fresh ... and the little flies that quickly infest them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Lee goes further by laying out detailed solutions for the cronyism and political favors that infest Washington. ❋ James Grundvig (2012)

Perhaps it is time for a new non-corporate player in the social networking space when Facebook bans a Google+ ad in an instant but then turns a blind eye when it is asked to help deal with abusive commenters who, for example, infest tribute pages to the dead. ❋ Stephen Canning (2011)

If we solve the energy problem without solving the population problem we will continue to infest the planet as we denude it of water, minerals and other finite resources, displacing natural fauna and flora to grow our food. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Though chicken droppings might be great for the old compost heap, don't even think about having Fido help you fertilize your tomato plants—carnivore manure as page 192 helpfully points out "may contain parasites and disease-carrying microbes that can survive the decomposition process and infest your garden." ❋ Eric Felten (2011)

Dr. Pierce, though he was perhaps the loudest of those who knew what was happening, was no match for the malevolent tricksters who control and infest the mainstream media. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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