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infest
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Infest \In*fest"\, a. [L. infestus. See Infest, v. t.]
Mischievous; hurtful; harassing. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
Infest \In*fest"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Infested; p. pr. & vb. n. Infesting.] [L. infestare, fr. infestus disturbed, hostile, troublesome; in in, against + the root of defendere: cf. F. infester. See Defend.] To trouble greatly by numbers or by frequency of presence; to disturb; to annoy; to frequent and molest or harass; as, fleas infest dogs and cats; a sea infested with pirates.
To poison vermin that infest his plants.
--Cowper.
These, said the genius, are envy, avarice,
superstition, love, with the like cares and passions
that infest human life.
--Addison.
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away.
--Longfellow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "to attack, assail, hurt, distress, annoy," from Middle French infester, from Latin infestare "to attack, disturb, trouble," from infestus "hostile, dangerous," originally "inexorable, not able to be handled," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + -festus "(able to be) seized." Sense of "swarm over in large numbers" first recorded c.1600. Related: Infested; infesting.
Wiktionary
(context obsolete English) mischievous; hurtful; harassing v
1 To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers 2 (context pathology of a parasite English) To invade a host plant or animal
WordNet
Wikipedia
Infest may refer to:
- Infest can mean to overpopulate, much in the same way that cockroaches do. See wild animal overpopulation and infestation.
- Infest (album), a 2000 hard rock album by Papa Roach
- Infest (band), American hardcore band
- Infest (festival), an alternative electronic music festival in Bradford, UK since 1998
- In-Fest, an indoor rock music festival based in London, England since 2007
Infest is an annual three-day music festival held at the University of Bradford Union in the United Kingdom, featuring alternative electronic music acts from genres including industrial, EBM, futurepop, synthpop and power noise. The event usually takes place on the August bank holiday weekend.
Infest is the second album by the rock band Papa Roach. It was released on April 25, 2000, and became the 20th highest-selling album of 2000 in the United States. The sound of the album is nu metal and rap metal. Many of the album songs contains rapping and hip hop influences. It was certified triple Platinum in the U.S. on July 18, 2001, and peaked at #5 on the Billboard 200 chart. This album earned the band a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. Infest has sold more than 7 million copies worldwide with 3 million in U.S. and is their best-selling album to date. "Thrown Away" contains a softer, reggae-ish version of the song "Tightrope", which starts at about 4:57.
Infest was an influential American powerviolence band, formed in September 1986 by Joe Denunzio, Matt Domino, Dave Ring and Chris Clift. They disbanded in 1991.
Infest, while not coining the term " powerviolence", were pioneers of the style. The Los Angeles quartet blended the ethos, speed and song structure of straight edge hardcore, along with the aggression and anger of bands like Negative Approach and Negative FX. Joe Denunzio’s vocals exhibited raw anger, with lyrical content about conformity, war, scene politics and socio-political issues, mostly delivered in an accusational assault.
Infest did however differ from their peers in their fervent political stance and imagery, often depicting the tragedies of war and poverty, countering the obligatory "band in action" album covers common to the era.
On July 1, 1991, Infest recorded a live set for the Los Angeles radio station KXLU. This session was later released by Deep Six Records who also released the No Man's Slave LP. The vocals on No Man's Slave were recorded post-breakup in 2000 and the LP was released later in 2002.
On January 13, 2013, Infest played their first show since 1991 at The Echo, in Echo Park, California with bands such as ACxDC (Anti-Christ Demon Core), Barking Backwards, Fissure and Sordo. They were among the headliners at the 2013 editions of Maryland Deathfest and Chaos in Tejas respectively. In July 2013 Infest headlined the Destroy L.A. Hardcore Festival with California youth crew legends Chain of Strength. In July 2014, they headlined a one-off in Dallas, Texas at Vice Palace, along with Chicago-based outfit Weekend Nachos.
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.