Definition of infest

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Infest (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..

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Infestive :: Infestive (a.) Having no mirth; not festive or merry; dull; cheerless; gloomy; forlorn.
Plague :: Plague (v. t.) To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind..
Cowboy :: Cowboy (n.) One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans..
Bugginess :: Bugginess (a.) The state of being infested with bugs.
Lungworm :: Lungworm (n.) Any one of several species of parasitic nematoid worms which infest the lungs and air passages of cattle, sheep, and other animals, often proving fatal. The lungworm of cattle (Strongylus micrurus) and that of sheep (S. filaria) are the best known..
Infesting :: Infesting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Infes.
Pad :: Pad (n.) A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; -- usually called a footpad.
Bots :: Bots (n. pl.) The larvae of several species of botfly, especially those larvae which infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments..
Pokerish :: Pokerish (a.) Infested by pokers; adapted to excite fear; as, a pokerish place..
Infestivity :: Infestivity (n.) Want of festivity, cheerfulness, or mirth; dullness; cheerlessness..
Wolf :: Wolf (a.) A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries..
Dermatophyte :: Dermatophyte (n.) A vegetable parasite, infesting the skin..
Lousy :: Lousy (a.) Infested with lice.
Wormil :: Wormil (n.) Any botfly larva which burrows in or beneath the skin of domestic and wild animals, thus producing sores. They belong to various species of Hypoderma and allied genera. Domestic cattle are often infested by a large species. See Gadfly. Called also warble, and worble..
Bedbug :: Bedbug (n.) A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix..
Spidered :: Spidered (a.) Infested by spiders; cobwebbed.
Rat :: Rat (n.) One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the Norway, or brown, rat (M. decumanus), the black rat (M. rattus), and the roof rat (M. Alexandrinus). These were introduced into America from the Old World..
Filibuster :: Filibuster (n.) A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855..
Infester :: Infester (n.) One who, or that which, infests..
Mosstrooper :: Mosstrooper (n.) One of a class of marauders or bandits that formerly infested the border country between England and Scotland; -- so called in allusion to the mossy or boggy character of much of the border country.
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