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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
infest .
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Examples
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That wretched apology of a creature stripped from me my dirt - encrusted shirt that I had worn since my entrance to solitary, and exposed my poor wasted body, the skin ridged like brown parchment over the ribs and sore-infested from the many bouts with the jacket.
Chapter 10 2010
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I was a fumbling mess typically just the boys I hang out with play, but yesterday I decided to tag along with them it was more fun than I thought it would be ... but I don't think I was born to toss a Frisbee into a chain infested basket things that I did wrong:
Archive 2009-04-01 Liz 2009
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To the mainland we were taken and thrown into a stinking, vermin - infested prison.
Chapter 15 2010
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That wretched apology of a creature stripped from me my dirt-encrusted shirt that I had worn since my entrance to solitary, and exposed my poor wasted body, the skin ridged like brown parchment over the ribs and sore-infested from the many bouts with the jacket The examination was shamelessly perfunctory.
Chapter 10 1915
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"Piracy," by which these rivers were said to be infested, is a very ugly word, suggestive of ugly deeds, bloody attacks, black flags, and no quarter; but here it meant, in our use of the word at least, a particular mode of raising revenue, and no boat could go up or down the Linggi without paying black-mail to one or more river rajahs.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883
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Their indolence abandoned the coast of Anatolia to the calamities of a piratical war, which, after an interval of six hundred years, again infested the Euxine; but as long as the capital was respected, the sufferings of a distant province escaped the notice both of the prince and the historian.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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We shaved the hair from our bodies, but we still became vermin infested.
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The vast English vocabulary is quite safe even in our increasingly culturally sensitive, politically correct, slang infested world.
tHiNkEr'S rOoM 2008
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The vast English vocabulary is quite safe even in our increasingly culturally sensitive, politically correct, slang infested world.
tHiNkEr'S rOoM 2008
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The vast English vocabulary is quite safe even in our increasingly culturally sensitive, politically correct, slang infested world.
tHiNkEr'S rOoM 2008
GHibbs commented on the word infested
My adjectival use: 'We need to clean the infested area thoroughly.'
August 19, 2011