Overrun, in a troublesome way

Usage examples of infest.

You can see patches of dead hemlocks, probably killed by the wooly adelgid, which is infesting so many of our forests.

He was the first Unionist commander to enter the Northern Cave of Adullam, already infested with Copperhead snakes.

They keep further north for Auckland, further south for New Plymouth, and the ship had struck just between these two points, on the desert region of the shores of Ika-na-Mani, a dangerous, difficult coast, and infested by desperate characters.

The name of the Yankee became a terror to every sea wolf in the western tropics, and the waters of the Bahama Islands became swept almost clean of the bloody wretches who had so lately infested it.

Their blue-skinned trade attaches lobbied relentlessly in the halls of government, and their commercial reps infested the executive suites of half the Hundred Concerns, wheeling and dealing.

The queen saw once busy towns half emptied of their folk, grazing lands gone to bramble, deep forests infested with dispossessed men turned poachers and robbers, on every tor a ruined citadel or one marked for doom.

I examined the dogs as they returned and found that all of them were heavily infested with hookworms and heartworms, as expected.

I hurry past third-rate Theseus and his plaster legions, through the lofty lobby where chandeliers hang from ceilings infested with gilt cupids, around the praying gateman outside up the sidewalk to the belly-high cement wall that runs along the steep bank of the Nile.

To this place came all the pirates and buccaneers that infested those parts, and men shouted and swore and gambled, and poured out money like water, and then maybe wound up their merrymaking by dying of fever.

That moved the stranger out of the hordes of crackers who infested the nets and into an elite group, the far smaller number of netwalkers, legitimate and not, who had had a brainworm installed.

The city was ruined, but the spirit of independence survived in the mountains: the Paulicians defended, above a century, their religion and liberty, infested the Roman limits, and maintained their perpetual alliance with the enemies of the empire and the gospel.

They found their playland infested with this green-light who sought them at first to play, ostensibly, but whose ultimate purpose was their discomfort.

As for a bath, the ponds of the swamp are infested with threlkoids and wire-worms, and cannot be recommended.

There was a fly that laid its eggs in open lesions on the hides of cattle, and the resulting larvae, the screwworm, was a serious problem, capable of wiping out the cattle population in an infested area.

It appeared to be pretty old, and probably already infested with shipworms, the termites of the sea.