transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪnfest ]
( infests, infesting, infested)
1.
When creatures such as insects or rats infest plants or a place, they are present in large numbers and cause damage.
...pests like aphids which infest cereal crops.
VERB : V n
• in‧fest‧ed
The prison is infested with rats...
ADJ : oft ADJ with n
• -infested
...the rat-infested slums where the plague flourished.
COMB in ADJ
• in‧fes‧ta‧tion
(infestations)
The premises were treated for cockroach infestation...
N-VAR : oft n N , N of n
2.
If you say that people or things you disapprove of or regard as dangerous are infesting a place, you mean that there are large numbers of them in that place.
Crime and drugs are infesting the inner cities.
= overrun
VERB : V n [ disapproval ]
• in‧fest‧ed
The road further south was infested with bandits.
ADJ
• -infested
...the shark-infested waters of the Great Barrier Reef.
COMB in ADJ