All infest synonyms
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I i adj infest
- pollute — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
- defile — To defile something that people think is important or holy means to do something to it or say something about it which is offensive.
- overwhelm — to overcome completely in mind or feeling: overwhelmed by remorse.
- beset — If someone or something is beset by problems or fears, they have many problems or fears which affect them severely.
- assail — If someone assails you, they criticize you strongly.
- flock — a lock or tuft of wool, hair, cotton, etc.
- worry — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
- fill — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- crowd — A crowd is a large group of people who have gathered together, for example to watch or listen to something interesting, or to protest about something.
- pester — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- ravage — to work havoc upon; damage or mar by ravages: a face ravaged by grief.
- swarm — a body of honeybees that emigrate from a hive and fly off together, accompanied by a queen, to start a new colony.
- invade — to enter forcefully as an enemy; go into with hostile intent: Germany invaded Poland in 1939.
- teem — to abound or swarm; be prolific or fertile (usually followed by with).
- infect — to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
- abound — If things abound, or if a place abounds with things, there are very large numbers of them.
- press — to force into service, especially naval or military service; impress.
- penetrate — to pierce or pass into or through: The bullet penetrated the wall. The fog lights penetrated the mist.
- crawl — When you crawl, you move forward on your hands and knees.
- annoy — If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
- throng — a multitude of people crowded or assembled together; crowd.
- harass — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
- harry — to harass, annoy, or prove a nuisance to by or as if by repeated attacks; worry: He was harried by constant doubts.
- pack — a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a mule pack; a hiker's pack.
- overspread — to spread or diffuse over: A blush of embarrassment overspread his face.
verb infest
- overrun — to rove over (a country, region, etc.); invade; ravage: a time when looting hordes had overrun the province.
- infiltrate — to filter into or through; permeate.
- pervade — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- riddle — a coarse sieve, as one for sifting sand in a foundry.
- permeate — to pass into or through every part of: Bright sunshine permeated the room.
adjective infest
- flood — a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.