to infest
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5.1
- verb
- /ɪnˈfɛst/
- Texting
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infectar
- The Turkish economy, however, has been infested with chronic inflation and high budget deficits over the last 25 years, which has not only disrupted macroeconomic balances but also eroded social structures and worsened income distribution.
- drug-infested
- bug-infested
- gang-infested
Examples
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It's Socialism, and our political establishment is completely infested with them.
Blog text (28) -
However, we still have the fraud from the bottommost to the topmost infesting the system, so that's a big minus.
Blog text (15) -
And they have infested every aspect of our government.
Blog text (11) -
In Africa, it infests every major river and nearly every major freshwater lake.
Academic text (2000) -
So my children were primed before this ideology infested schools.
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The malware began to infest the network, causing widespread disruptions and unauthorized access to sensitive data.
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After the security breach, hackers were able to infest the system with various malicious programs, making it impossible to recover lost files.
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As soon as the ransomware infested his computer, he realized it was too late to prevent the damage.
Synonyms
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3.7
To enter and spread through a place or body causing harm
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3.7
Put a virus or harmful program on a computer
How Widespread
Surface Forms
Etymology
Infest comes from the old Latin word infestare, which meant 'to attack' or 'harass'. A helpful image is of tiny invaders filling a place — in the same way pests fill a house, harmful programs 'attack' and fill a computer, so we say they infest a system.