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infest

/in-fest/US // ɪnˈfɛst //UK // (ɪnˈfɛst) //

侵扰,滋扰,侵袭,滋生

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 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.
    • : to be numerous in, as anything undesirable or troublesome: the cares that infest the day.
    • : Archaic. to harass.

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Examples

  • Survivors describe scooping it into their helmets before lowering themselves into shark-infested waters.

  • Being infested with those microbes can slow a mussel’s growth — and reproduction, too.

  • Another woman’s rental home was infested with rats and cockroaches.

  • 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.

  • Today, the roughly four dozen known species of Rafflesiaceae all infest vines from a single genus, Tetrastigma.

  • If the actions of men are necessary, if men are not free, what right has society to punish the wicked who infest it?

  • The horrible staring eyes began again to infest his journey, and seemed to accompany him wherever he went.

  • The sultry nights in Chorillos are rendered doubly unpleasant by the swarms of vermin which infest the houses.

  • The same holds true of the multitude of nature demons that infest field and forest and the vicinity of streams and gorges.

  • The Bark lice or Scale-insects should also be collected in connection with the leaves or twigs which they infest.