infested

Meaning of infested

verb, past tense
  1. (of insects or animals) be present (in a place or site) in large numbers, typically so as to cause damage or disease.
    the house is infested with cockroaches
    shark-infested waters

late Middle English (in the sense ‘torment, harass’): from French infester or Latin infestare ‘assail’, from infestus ‘hostile’. The current sense dates from the mid 16th century.

Information about infested

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Hyphenation of infested

in-fested

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • infested is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

infested synonyms

Meaning overrun:

overrun, plagued

Meaning cover the surface of; spread over:

overspread

Meaning (of an armed force) enter (a country or region) so as to subjugate or occupy it:

invade

Meaning go into or through (something), especially with force or effort:

penetrate

Meaning enter or gain access to (an organization, place, etc.) surreptitiously and gradually, especially in order to acquire secret information:

infiltrate, infiltrated

Meaning (especially of a smell) spread through and be perceived in every part of:

pervade

Meaning spread throughout (something); pervade:

permeate, permeated

Meaning overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be dealt with:

inundate

Meaning bury or drown beneath a huge mass of something, especially water:

overwhelm

Meaning (of a problem or difficulty) trouble (someone or something) persistently:

beset

Meaning trouble or annoy (someone) with frequent or persistent requests or interruptions:

pester

Meaning cause continual trouble or distress to:

plague

Meaning moving in or forming a large or dense group:

swarming

Meaning be full of or swarming with:

teeming

Meaning move forward on the hands and knees or by dragging the body close to the ground:

crawling

Meaning (especially of hair) short, stiff, and spiky:

bristling

Meaning (of a person, animal, or plant) living, not dead:

alive

Meaning sit on and control the movement of (an animal, typically a horse):

ridden

Meaning infested with vermin:

vermined

Anagrams of infested

fendiest

Words that rhyme with infested

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