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infested

[ in-fes-tid ]

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adjective

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.
filled or riddled with anything undesirable or troublesome (usually used in combination):
The restaurant sat in an increasingly tourist-infested part of town.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of infest.

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Other Word Forms

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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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Days into our temporary sublet, we discovered it was infested with bed bugs.

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Rats had infested the assisted living facility in Van Nuys, state investigators said.

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Fleas infested the home, biting them in their sleep, and rain leaked through the shingles into the attic, sprouting a cluster of mushrooms, the lawsuit said.

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The suit alleges youths were forced to “relieve themselves” in bottles and milk cartons and were stuck in “filthy and unsanitary” conditions, infested with cockroaches.

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But not even McDonald’s has called him, and his wife’s part-time gig washing dishes in a restaurant barely covers the $2,500 they pay each month in rent for an apartment infested with bedbugs.

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