infest / ɪnˈfɛst /

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infest 的定义

v. 有主动词 verb
  1. to live in or overrun to an unwanted degree or in a troublesome manner, especially as predatory animals or vermin do: Sharks infested the coastline.
  2. to be numerous in, as anything undesirable or troublesome: the cares that infest the day.
  3. Archaic. to harass.

infest 近义词

adj. 形容词 adjective

flood, overrun

更多infest例句

  1. Survivors describe scooping it into their helmets before lowering themselves into shark-infested waters.
  2. Being infested with those microbes can slow a mussel’s growth — and reproduction, too.
  3. Another woman’s rental home was infested with rats and cockroaches.
  4. As one expert notes, 2000 through 2011 saw high levels of pirate activity, with the Gulf of Aden area off the coast of East Africa becoming the most pirate-infested part of the world, and the most dangerous for cargo ships.
  5. Today, the roughly four dozen known species of Rafflesiaceae all infest vines from a single genus, Tetrastigma.
  6. If the actions of men are necessary, if men are not free, what right has society to punish the wicked who infest it?
  7. The horrible staring eyes began again to infest his journey, and seemed to accompany him wherever he went.
  8. The sultry nights in Chorillos are rendered doubly unpleasant by the swarms of vermin which infest the houses.
  9. The same holds true of the multitude of nature demons that infest field and forest and the vicinity of streams and gorges.
  10. The Bark lice or Scale-insects should also be collected in connection with the leaves or twigs which they infest.