Infest
[ɪn'fest] or [ɪn'fɛst]
Definition
(verb.) invade in great numbers; 'the roaches infested our kitchen'.
(verb.) live on or in a host, as of parasites.
Editor: Moll--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) Mischievous; hurtful; harassing.
(v. t.) To trouble greatly by numbers or by frequency of presence; to disturb; to annoy; to frequent and molest or harass; as, fleas infest dogs and cats; a sea infested with pirates.
Checked by Delores
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Disturb, annoy, vex, tease, harass, plague, torment, trouble, molest, worry.
Edited by Leopold
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Trouble, harass, tease, annoy, pester, molest, plague, disturb
ANT:Comfort, gratify, regale, refresh
Checked by Erwin
Definition
v.t. to disturb: to harass.—adj. (Spens.) hostile: troublesome.—n. Infestā′tion (Milt.) molestation.
Typed by Lloyd
Examples
- They crowd you --infest you--swarm about you, and sweat and smell offensively, and look sneaking and mean, and obsequious. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- 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.
Editor: Nita