noun
definition
Hostility.
verb
definition
To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers; to plague, harass.
example
Insects are infesting my basement!
definition
(of a parasite) To invade a host plant or animal.
adjective
definition
Mischievous; hurtful; harassing.
Examples of infest in a Sentence
Sharks infest the estuaries.
Fights between these huge serpents and the crocodiles which infest all the rivers are said to be not uncommon.
There are two classes of these Indian Fakirs, (1) the religious orders, and (2) the nomad rogues who infest the country.
Such are the general causes of the errors that infest the human mind; by their exposure the way is cleared for the introduction of the new method.
Among the other fungi which infest the vine may be mentioned Phyllosticta viticola and Ph.
To gamekeepers and those interested in the preservation of game, all animals such as the pole-cat, weasel, stoat, hawks, owls, &c., which destroy the eggs or young of preserved birds, are classed as "vermin," and the same term includes rats, mice, &c. It is also the collective name given to all those disgusting and objectionable insects that infest human beings, houses, &c., when allowed to be in a filthy and unsanitary condition, such as bugs, fleas, lice, &c.
The list of reptiles includes the venomous Vipera ammodytes and Pelias berus, while scorpions and lizards infest the stony wastes of the Karst.
The nature of the breeding-place varies greatly according to the species, and while many of the mosquitoes that infest houses will breed even in the smallest accidental accumulation of water such as may have collected in a discarded bottle or tin, the larvae of other species less closely associated with man are found in natural pools or ditches, at the margins of slow-moving streams, in collections of water in hollow trees and bamboo-stumps, or even in the water-receptacles of certain plants.
On occasion, tobacco beetles and their larva can infest cigars.
Heartworms can infest and weaken the heart muscle.
Violent dreams of missing students and bloodthirsty monsters haunt his nights, as Shiraki learns of the legendary vampires that infest the region.
With the exception of the genus Trichodectes, the various species of which are found on mammalia, all infest birds (as their English names implies) (see BIRDLousE).
Of the insects which infest dwellings and prey upon their human inmates, such as fleas, bed-bugs, roaches, &c., Ecuador has more than a bountiful supply.
Finally, wax moth does not kill bees or infest strong colonies, only weak colonies that are dying out or stored frames.
Fleas are also an intermediate host for tapeworms, which can infest your dog's intestinal track and require an oral medication for treatment.
Fleas can infest our dogs, our homes, our cars and even a vacuum bag.
They are free from the pests that infest the double Roses, and above all things when single Roses are present in the garden a roseless June will not happen even in the worst of seasons.
The shiny iridescent green beetles appear in midsummer and quickly infest plants of all types in the home landscape, leaving behind a wake of destruction.
A cell phone works on a wireless network so one easy attack is to infest your phone with a virus program.
Lap dogs were employed to keep insects off of humans as needed, since the standard house flea would jump from human to pet rather than infest in their hair.
At least four species of fleas (including Pulex irritans) which infest the common rat are known to bite man, and are believed to be the active agents in the transmission of plague from rats to human beings.
His grandson, Niall (791-845), drove back the Vikings who in his time began to infest the coast of Donegal.
On this the principal people sleep, and it serves as a storehouse inaccessible to rats, which infest all the islands.
We despair of saving the colony from those evils which threaten it by the turbulent and dishonest conduct of vagrants, who are allowed to infest the country in every part; nor do we see any prospect of peace or happiness for our children in a country thus distracted by internal commotions.
For a longer or shorter period of their lives ticks are parasitic upon vertebrate animals of various kinds; but although the belief that the bite of certain tropical species is poisonous has long been held by the natives of the countries they infest and has been recorded with corroborative evidence by European authors in books of travel, it is only of recent years that accurate information has been acquired of the part played by these Arachnids in transmitting from one host to another protozoal blood-parasites which cause serious or fatal diseases to man and other animals.
The worms infest the tissue in the cat's lungs.
Local militia, protecting none who refused to join in the common defence, and all serving " not as soldiers but as farmers mutually pledged to protect each other from the depredations of outlaws who infest the state," strove to secure such public order as was necessary to the gathering of crops, so as "to prevent the starvation of the citizens" (governor's circular, 1865).