Infested
[ɪn'festid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Infest
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Examples
- They hang on to their old positions when the position is over-past, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The place had a bar and six bare tables, and was simply infested with roaches. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was applied to a band of Tories who infested the neutral ground of Westchester County, New York, stealing cattle from both parties and doing other mischief. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The dark bean-shaped cells are the normal blood corpuscles, and the few speckled cells are those infested with the malarial parasites. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He also relieved the monotony of office-work by fitting up the battery circuits to play jokes on his fellow-operators, and to deal with the vermin that infested the premises. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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