infest
infest 英 [ɪnˈfest] 美 [ɪnˈfɛst]
vt. 大量滋生，大批出没
进行时:infesting 过去式:infested 过去分词:infested 第三人称单数:infests
- The verb infest means to invade in large number, often resisting control and causing damage or hardship. Bedbugs can infest people's belongings and even their bodies, or mice may infest your kitchen if you leave the cheese out too often.
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- vt. 大量滋生，大批出没
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1. shark-infested waters
鲨鱼成群的水域
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2. The kitchen was infested with ants.
厨房里到处是蚂蚁。
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3. an infestation of lice
长满虱子
- infest (v.) late 15c., "to attack, assail, hurt, distress, annoy," from Old French infester (14c.), from Latin infestare "to attack, disturb, trouble," from infestus "unsafe, hostile, threatening, dangerous," originally "inexorable, not able to be handled," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + -festus, perhaps "(able to be) seized" (see manifest (adj.)). Sense of "swarm over in large numbers, attack parasitically" first recorded c. 1600. Related: Infested; infesting.
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