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infest
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in·fest (n-fst)
v.
1. To live as a parasite in or on tissues or organs or on the skin and its appendages.
2. To inhabit or overrun in numbers large enough to be harmful, threatening, or obnoxious.

infes·tation n.

infest
[infest′]
to attack, invade, and subsist on the skin or in the internal organs of a host. Compare infect.


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