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infested

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

出没的,虫害,侵扰的,出没

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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

  • The road between the two towns is partially unpaved and can be treacherous, infested with Taliban checkpoints.

  • I do, however, intend it to sound mean about the reactionary, prejudice-infested place she comes from.

  • She suffered no more beatings—just solitary confinement in an underground cell always dark and dank and cockroach-infested.

  • The episode includes satirical images of crime-ridden, rat-infested slums overrun by child-biting monkeys.

  • No one is safe from shark-infested tornadoes, especially not in New York City.

  • In the summer, though, Bettles sees more tourists who come to the fly-and-mosquito infested gateway into the Alaskan wilderness.

  • From the very first of the war their work was to help exterminate the guerrilla bands which infested the State.

  • Weed-grown, bramble-infested fields lay cleared of dbris, that had been gathered into heaps and burned.

  • But the step that would raise one above all the little fumbling, blind-spawning, life hugging bipeds who infested the scene.

  • It was certainly reported that they were very much infested with tigers, but this deterred no one.

  • The Mediterranean Sea in those days was infested by pirates sailing from the Moorish ports.