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# infest

«infest» in Mova's school dictionary: **to fill it with many pests or harmful creatures, so that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (infests, infested, infesting)

### meaning for a pupil

To infest a place is to fill it with many pests or harmful creatures, so that they are a problem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infest/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

monsters or robbers that overrun a land or road in a tale

### examples

- Rats infested the old barn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infest/#x1)
- The forest was infested with wolves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infest/#x2)
- Robbers infested the mountain road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infest/#x3)
- Fleas infested the dog's bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infest/#x4)

### note

infest gives no count; it only says there are very many, so no number is used

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «infest» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infest/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.