Word Finder - rife

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Widespread, common, prevalent, current (mainly of unpleasant or harmful things).

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Smallpox was rife after the siege had been lifted.

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Abounding; present in large numbers, plentiful.

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These woodlands are rife with red deer.

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Full of (mostly unpleasant or harmful things).

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Many post-colonial governments were rife with lawlessness and corruption.

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Having power; active; nimble.

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Plentifully, abundantly.

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The snowdrops grow rife on the slopes of Mount Pembroke.

An encouraging example is afforded by the remarkable fact that malaria, which was once rife in certain districts of England, has now died out, although the Anopheles maculipennis mosquito still exists there.

They were still rife in Antioch in 260.

As the queen's reign drew to its close, rumours were rife on the great subject of the succession to the throne.

The commercial and financial evils rife under the last kings of the Aviz dynasty were now repeated.

While revolution prevailed in the city, robbery was rife in the province of Yezd; and from Kazvin the son of Au Mirza otherwise called the zulus-sultan, the prince-governor of Teheran, who disputed the succession of Mahommed Shah, came forth to contest the crown with his cousin, the heir-apparent.

False teaching is still rife in the church today.

It has been ascribed to a fly, to the water and to other causes; but it is not peculiar to Aleppo, being rife also at Aintab, Bagdad, &c.

Those who did so were suspected of an inclination towards novel and dangerous modes of thinking, then rife on the Continent and slowly finding their way to England.

Discontent became rife, and on the ship breaking out of the ice in the spring Henry Hudson had a violent quarrel with a dissolute young fellow named Henry Greene, whom he had befriended by taking him on board, and who now retaliated by inciting the discontented part of the crew to put Hudson and eight others (including the sick men) out of the ship. This happened on the 22nd of June 1611.

Conspiracy was now rife both in Naples and Sicily, but as yet there was no idea of deposing the king.

Of course, the Internet is rife with great luggage stores.

From the beginning, insurrection against the new government had been rife.

Despite the bad news, optimism about the economy remains rife.

In 1281 discontent with the king and his system of justice had again become rife in Wales, and at this point the treacherous Prince David, who had hitherto supported the king against his own brother, was the first to proclaim a national revolt.

In England the abuse was rife in the 8th century, as may be gathered from the acts of the council of Cloveshoe.

It is curious that Salvian shows no such hatred of the heterodox barbarians as was rife in Gaul seventy years later.

For example, there is much poverty in India, with shanty towns where disease is rife.

Various dangerous plots against his government and person were at this time rife.

In 1481, three years after the Sixtine commission, a tribunal was inaugurated at Seville, where freedom of speech and licence of manner were rife.

Rumours had from time to time been rife of a "chancellor crisis" and Billow's dismissal; in the Berliner Tageblatt this letter was compared to the "Never!"

The administration lost all authority, the police were paralysed and brigandage became rife.

Subsequently appointed by the ephors to settle the political dissensions then rife at Byzantium and to protect the city and the neighbouring Greek colonies from Thracian attacks, he made himself tyrant of Byzantium, and, when declared an outlaw and driven thence by a Spartan force, he fled to Cyrus.

The visit of Mr Redmond and others to America in 1901 was not believed to have brought in much money, and the activity of the League was more or less restrained rife, especially in Sligo, and paid agents also promoted an agitation against grass farms in Tipperary, Clare and other southern counties.

Police say reports of nuisance are up; violent crime is on the increase; hard drugs are rife.

Could such miscreants be the origin of the web of restrictive agreements with which UK industry is said to be rife?

The data also showed that the unemployment is particularly rife among women.

False positive and negative results we are told are so rife its more stress than its worth.

Importing tens of millions of foreign workers into a bloc already rife with racial tensions is also fraught with political difficulties.

A huge increase in ' phishing ' which is the use of often sophisticated e-mail scams is now rife in the UK.

Bullying, sexual harassment and physical abuse is also rife.

However, these systems are rapidly penetrating the market and will soon become rife.

A supreme junta had been formed which could nominally assemble about ioo,000 men, but jealousy among its members was rife, and they still declined to appoint any commander-in-chief.

According to the common story, the Locrians consulted the Delphic oracle as to a remedy for the disorder and lawlessness that were rife amongst them.

He bought a vigna in the Borgo near the Vatican, and thereon erected a sumptuous palace after designs by Bramante; and it was here, in the summer of 1503, that he entertained the pope and Cesare Borgia at a banquet that went on till nightfall despite the unhealthy season of the year, when ague in its most malignant form was rife.

Governor James Bowdoin in1786-1787put down with clemency an almost bloodless insurrection in the western counties (there was strong disaffection, however, as far east as Middlesex), known as the Shays Rebellion, significant of the rife ideas of popular power, the economic distress, and the unsettled political conditions of the years of the Confederation.

Peace and prosperity gradually weakened the benign rule of the kings of this dynasty, and during the reign of the last but one internecine war was rife between the chiefs and nobles of U and Tsang.

Lauderdale having married the rapacious countess of Dysart, corruption was rife; his brother, Haltoun, was an example of reckless greed; opposition arose to a scheme of union, presently dropped, and by 1673 the duke of Hamilton and Sir George Mackenzie led an organized political opposition.

Discontent became rife, and on the ship breaking out of the ice in the spring Hudson had a violent quarrel with a dissolute young fellow named Henry Greene, whom he had befriended by taking him on board, and who now retaliated by inciting the discontented part of the crew to put Hudson and eight others (including the sick men) out of the ship. This happened on the 22nd of June r 6 r 1.

Perverse discourses and oppressive deeds were waxen rife.

Through the Ages and for All Eternity The exact origin of the wedding ring is uncertain and is rife with superstition and mythology.

Lying low is now mandatory in Baghdad, a city rife with rumors that foreigners will soon be asked to leave.

A significant number have been rife with corruption or have left countries with huge debts.

The communications press is rife with stories and reports about the probable downturn...

It also suggest that the two died due to some infection rife at the time.

Dianah Worman, CIPD Diversity Adviser, says, ' Figures show age discrimination is still rife in the workplace.

Home invasion and murder is rife in this country at the moment.

Adamnan died around 704 AD, having been attributed with the halting of the plague rife in the area at the time.

The findings offer an explanation as to why breast cancer is more rife in the western world compared with the developing world.

The turbo trainer has lost its attraction as the cast gets sodden inside when I spin and reality TV is rife on the box !

Power plays, backbiting, wheeler dealing and the usual political skullduggery are rife.