invade in great numbers; "the roaches infested our kitchen"
Used in a Sentence
infest
How to use infest in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for infest.
Editorial note
They give live birth and don't infest homes.
Examples14
Definitions3
Parts of speech1
Quick take
invade in great numbers; "the roaches infested our kitchen"
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of infest gathered in one view.
occupy in large numbers or live on a host; "the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North"
live on or in a host, as of parasites
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for infest.
verb
invade in great numbers; "the roaches infested our kitchen"
See also: overrun
verb
occupy in large numbers or live on a host; "the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North"
verb
live on or in a host, as of parasites
Example sentences
They give live birth and don't infest homes.
How will a patent troll holding a patent on this help "infest" 3D printing?
Not buying eBooks from suppliers that infest them with DRM doesn't mean not buying eBooks.
I couldn't imagine having these things infest my house and crawl all over my feet during the day.
A better title would be "How DRM will completely fail to infest the 3D printing revolution.
All it takes is one ship with a handful of zebra mussels to infest the entire Great Lakes ecosystem.
I find it useful to remove all the tracking, analytics and social bits that infest most websites.
It seems that no one can avoid getting drawn in to the Le Carr-esque intrigue and excitement that seems to infest this whole saga.
All it takes is one person accidentally releasing Asian grass carp for it to infest the entire country.
American unions are much more parasitic as they have zero vested interest in the hosts they infest.
There are whole species of other bots that infest the Amazon Marketplace, pretending to have used copies of books, fighting epic price wars no one ever sees.
The puzzle of evading materialism is that it seems to infest everything.>because you have such relentless resourcefulness, determination, and physical and mental healthAnd what if you don't?
It would be perfectly plausible to infest the darknet with millions of your own nodes reporting as the next best hops thus inserting themselves in the middle of all darknet traffic able to analyze data as it flows through the system.
How would using the bundled browser be any better?All bundling did was encourage a crappy browser to stay crappy, and infest far too many PCs with malware due to a horrible plugin architecture as well as a lack of security consciousness.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use infest in a sentence?
They give live birth and don't infest homes.
What does infest mean?
invade in great numbers; "the roaches infested our kitchen"
What part of speech is infest?
infest is commonly used as verb.