infest 的定义
- 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.
infest 近义词
flood, overrun
更多infest例句
- 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.