infest
verb (used with object)
to live in or overrun to an unwanted degree or in a troublesome manner, especially as predatory animals or vermin do.
infester
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a word derived from
infest.
Example Sentences
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Appointing a confessor who was a sworn enemy of Grandier, Sister Jeanne began to confide to him her symptoms of a demonic infestation that clearly indicated Grandier as the infester.
From Time Magazine Archive
They through the hall Fled, scatter’d as an herd, which rapid-wing’d The gad-fly dissipates, infester fell Of beeves, when vernal suns shine hot and long.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
