Infest

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To inhabit or overrun in numbers or quantities large enough to be harmful, threatening, or obnoxious: rats infesting the sewers; streets that were infested with drugs.
  • v. To live as a parasite in or on: livestock that were infested with tapeworms.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to be mischievous; to be hurtful; to be harassing.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Mischievous; hurtful; harassing.
  • v. To trouble greatly by numbers or by frequency of presence; to disturb; to annoy; to frequent and molest or harass
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Hostile; hurtful; mischievous; harassing; troublesome.
  • To attack; molest; harass; haunt or prowl around mischievously or hurtfully; attack parasitically.
  • Synonyms To annoy, harass, torment, plague, vex, molest, overrun.
  • To become confirmed in evil; become habitually vicious.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. invade in great numbers
  • v. live on or in a host, as of parasites
  • v. occupy in large numbers or live on a host
  • Verb Form
    infested    infesting    infests   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    invade    occupy    inhabit   
    Form
    infested    infesting   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    mischievous    hurtful    harassing    disturb    annoy    frequent   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Best    Blessed    Brest    Celeste    Este    Midwest    Pest    Test    West    abreast   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts