Thesaurus results for INFEST

infest

verb

in-ˈfest

Definition of infest

as in to plague

to spread or swarm over in a troublesome manner in desperation, we called in an exterminator because the house was infested with ants

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Recent Examples of infest Authorities are investigating after human remains at a Chicago funeral home were allegedly found decaying in an unrefrigerated area infested with rodents. — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2026 Felix Molina has noticed the difference at a local park that used to be rat-infested. — Dave Carlin, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026 By the same logic, to write anything at all is to go into the locked room of your potential and realise that the roof is leaking, there’s damp in the walls and the furniture is infested with woodworm. — Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026 Luca explained that these patches had been infested by pine bark beetles, notorious evergreen-killers that feed on stressed or weakened conifers. — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for infest

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Safety and crowding concerns will continue to plague the uptown jail when Jail North reopens to alleviate conditions, Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden warned late Friday.

— Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 5 Sep. 2026
Jackson broke his foot last training camp when a teammate stepped on it during practice, and that injury plagued him all of 2025 and required an offseason procedure that kept him sidelined during OTAs and minicamp.

— Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of plague

Verb

Yolo County health officials discovered a dead bird infected with the disease near Woodland in June and reported the year’s first sample containing the virus in early July.

— Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 9 Sep. 2026
An infection from the bacteria can lead to death in young children, the elderly and those with weak immune systems if they are infected.

— Julia Gomez, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of infect

Verb

Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images An Amazon cargo jet on Sunday overran the runway at Miami International Airport.

— Alex Harring, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2026
The plane overran runway 30 on landing, struck navigational aids and hit a 2012 white Ford Econoline van owned by the Professional Ocean Service Corporation, a contract cleaning company for the airlines, Homendy said.

— Steven Yablonski, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of overrun

Verb

In fact, agents are better equipped to do this than LLMs, as they can be configured more accurately to crawl certain sites or sources and therefore return more accurate results.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026
Their mother had crawled, wounded, on the floor before the brothers fired a final, fatal blast.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of crawl

Verb

The architecture is striking without overwhelming its surroundings; the food celebrates the region with confidence, and the spa itself is reason enough to visit.

— Vicki Power, TheWeek, 14 Sep. 2026
People indicated they were overwhelmed by the sheer volume of news, and in some cases felt isolated.

— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of overwhelm

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