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infested

[ in-fes-tid ]

adjective

  1. overrun to an unwanted degree or in a troublesome manner by predatory animals or vermin (often used in combination):

    It is so difficult to eradicate cockroaches from an infested area.

    The only unguarded way of escape was through an alligator-infested swamp.

  2. filled or riddled with anything undesirable or troublesome (usually used in combination):

    The restaurant sat in an increasingly tourist-infested part of town.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of infest.

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Other Words From

  • un·in·fest·ed adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of infested1

First recorded in 1890–1900; infest ( def ) + -ed 2( def ) for the adjective senses; infest ( def ) + -ed 1( def ) for the verb sense

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Example Sentences

The road between the two towns is partially unpaved and can be treacherous, infested with Taliban checkpoints.

From Quartz

I do, however, intend it to sound mean about the reactionary, prejudice-infested place she comes from.

She suffered no more beatings—just solitary confinement in an underground cell always dark and dank and cockroach-infested.

The episode includes satirical images of crime-ridden, rat-infested slums overrun by child-biting monkeys.

No one is safe from shark-infested tornadoes, especially not in New York City.

In the summer, though, Bettles sees more tourists who come to the fly-and-mosquito infested gateway into the Alaskan wilderness.

From the very first of the war their work was to help exterminate the guerrilla bands which infested the State.

Weed-grown, bramble-infested fields lay cleared of dbris, that had been gathered into heaps and burned.

But the step that would raise one above all the little fumbling, blind-spawning, life hugging bipeds who infested the scene.

It was certainly reported that they were very much infested with tigers, but this deterred no one.

The Mediterranean Sea in those days was infested by pirates sailing from the Moorish ports.

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