Definitions for infests

infests in·fest

Spelling: [in-fest]
IPA: /ɪnˈfɛst/

Infests is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 130 anagrams from letters in infests (efinsst).

Definitions for infests

verb (used with object)

  1. to live in or overrun to an unwanted degree or in a troublesome manner, especially as predatory animals or vermin do:
  2. to be numerous in, as anything undesirable or troublesome:
  3. Archaic. to harass.

Origin of infests

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin infestāre to assail, molest, derivative of infestus hostile

Examples for infests

It extinguishes every dirty spark of malice and envy, which are but too apt to infest me.

A load of miscreants from goodness knows where, who infest me with vermin.

Other species eat most of the scales which infest fruit and forest trees.

They infest desert places, and are nocturnal in their habits.

You are too green to cope with the sharpers that infest those boats.

Others are getting the worms and insects that infest the trees.

I was struck by the immense number of alligators which infest the river.

Also, the large maggots with black heads that infest biscuit.

Insects do not seem to infest it as they do the ostreatus and the sapidus.

From them have come the many species of shark that now infest our ocean.

Word Value for infests
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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