Definitions for infest

infest in·fest

Spelling: [in-fest]
IPA: /ɪnˈfɛst/

Infest is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in infest (efinst).

Definitions for infest

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 infest

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

Examples for infest

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for infest
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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