Another word for infested

infested Synonyms

infested

modif.

Overrun
beset, crowded, overwhelmed; see full 1, jammed 2.
Diseased
ravaged, wormy, lousy, pediculous, pedicular, ratty, grubby; see also sick.

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Many cisterns are infested with Guinea worm (filaria medinensis, Gm.).
No injury is done to the infested insects.
Festus found Judaea infested with robbers and the sicarii, who mingled with the crowds at the feasts and stabbed their enemies with the daggers (sicae) from which their name was derived.
ABRAHAM-MEN, the nickname for vagrants who infested England in Tudor times.
T.) Anime, an oleo-resin (said to be so called because in its natural state it is infested with insects) which is exuded from the locust tree, Hymenaea coumaril, and other species of Hymenaea growing in tropical South America.

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