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infest

/ɪnˈfɛst

verb [with object]

(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 (as adjective, in combination -infested) shark-infested waters...

Fleas infest the animal (rats, but other rodents as well), and these fleas move freely over to human hosts.
His McGill ghetto apartment is infested with mice and, try as he might, he can't seem to get rid of them.
The species was believed to have been wiped out in 1918 when rats infested their home island.

Synonyms

overrun, spread through, take over, overspread, swarm over, crawl over, run riot over;

invade, penetrate, infiltrate, pervade, permeate, inundate, overwhelm;

beset, pester, plague

overrun, swarming, teeming, crawling, bristling, alive, ridden, infiltrated, permeated;

plagued, beset

rare vermined

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.

This has the sense ‘torment, harass’ in early examples. It goes back to Latin infestare ‘assail’, from infestus ‘hostile’. The current sense ‘trouble in large numbers’ dates from the mid 16th century.

单词	infest
释义	infest /ɪnˈfɛst / verb [with object] (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* (as adjective, in combination -infested) shark-infested waters... Fleas infest the animal (rats, but other rodents as well), and these fleas move freely over to human hosts. His McGill ghetto apartment is infested with mice and, try as he might, he can't seem to get rid of them. The species was believed to have been wiped out in 1918 when rats infested their home island. Synonyms overrun, spread through, take over, overspread, swarm over, crawl over, run riot over; invade, penetrate, infiltrate, pervade, permeate, inundate, overwhelm; beset, pester, plague overrun, swarming, teeming, crawling, bristling, alive, ridden, infiltrated, permeated; plagued, beset rare vermined 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. This has the sense ‘torment, harass’ in early examples. It goes back to Latin infestare ‘assail’, from infestus ‘hostile’. The current sense ‘trouble in large numbers’ dates from the mid 16th century. Rhymes abreast, arrest, attest, beau geste, behest, bequest, best, blessed, blest, breast, Brest, Bucharest, Budapest, celeste, chest, contest, crest, digest, divest, guest, hest, ingest, jest, lest, Midwest, molest, nest, northwest, pest, prestressed, protest, quest, rest, self-addressed, self-confessed, self-possessed, southwest, suggest, test, Trieste, unaddressed, unexpressed, unimpressed, unpressed, unstressed, vest, west, wrest, zest
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