— vermination , n.
/verr"meuh nayt'/ , v.i. , verminated, verminating .
1. to become infested with vermin, esp. parasitic vermin.
2. Archaic. to breed or infest with vermin.
[ 1685-95; verminatus, ptp. of verminare to be infested with maggots, to have racking pains, equiv. to vermin ( a ) racking pain + -atus -ATE 1 ; dual sense of verminare by assoc. with vermis worm, maggot, vermin- being taken, perh. erroneously, as an extended s. of this word ]