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    in·fest
    [inˈfest]
    verb
    infests (third person present)
    1. (of insects or animals) be present (in a place or site) in large numbers, typically so as to cause damage or disease:
      "the house is infested with cockroaches" · "shark-infested waters"
    Origin
    late Middle English (in the sense ‘torment, harass’): from French infester or Latin infestare ‘assail’, from infestus ‘hostile’. The current sense dates from the mid 16th century.
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    1. (of insects or animals) be present (in a place or site) in large numbers, typically so as to cause damage or disease:
      overrun
      take over
      overspread
      invade
      penetrate
      infiltrate
      pervade
      permeate
      inundate
      overwhelm
      beset
      pester
      plague
      swarming
      teeming
      crawling
      bristling
      alive
      ridden
      infiltrated
      permeated
      plagued
      spread through
      swarm over
      crawl over
      run riot over
      vermined
     
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    What is infest verb?
    Definition of infest verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (especially of insects or animals such as rats) to exist in large numbers in a particular place, often causing damage or disease be infested (with something) The kitchen was infested with ants. infest something These parasites infest the gills of freshwater fish.

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    What does it mean if someone infests a place?
    1. When creatures such as insects or rats infest plants or a place, they are present in large numbers and cause damage. [...] 2. If you say that people or things you disapprove of or regard as dangerous are infesting a place, you mean that there are large numbers of them in that place. [disapproval] [...] present simple: I infest, you infest [...]

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    What does infested mean?
    to live in or overrun to an unwanted degree or in a troublesome manner, esp. as predatory animals or vermin do: Sharks infested the coastline. to be numerous in, as anything undesirable or troublesome: the cares that infest the day. [Archaic.]to harass.

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    What does infest a plant mean?
    When creatures such as insects or rats infest plants or a place, they are present in large numbers and cause damage. ...pests like aphids which infest cereal crops. 2 meanings: 1. to inhabit or overrun in dangerously or unpleasantly large numbers 2. (of parasites such as lice) to invade and.... Click for more definitions.

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  2. uk / ɪnˈfest / us / ɪnˈfest / Add to word list Add to word list (of animals, insects) to cause a problem by being present in large numbers, spreading disease or causing damage or danger : be infested with The barn was infested with rats. The swamp is infested by spiders of all sorts.

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    : to spread or swarm in or over in a troublesome manner a neighborhood infested with crime shark-infested waters 2 : to live in or on as a parasite horses infested with worms

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    to be numerous in, as anything undesirable or troublesome: the cares that infest the day. Archaic. to harass. infest / ɪnˈfɛst / verb to inhabit or overrun in dangerously or unpleasantly large numbers (of parasites such as lice) to invade and live on or in (a host)

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