infesting
present participle ofinfest
infest
verb[T]
uk/ɪnˈfest/us/ɪnˈfest/(ofanimalsandinsectsthatcarrydisease) tocauseaproblemby beingpresentinlargenumbers:
Thebarnwas infestedwithrats.
Passing on illness & causing disease
- aerosolize
- community transmission
- contact tracer
- contact tracing
- disseminator
- epidemic
- harbour
- infect
- infected
- insalubrious
- noncarrier
- noncontagious
- pass on
- percent positive
- pestilential
- transmissible
- transmit
- transmittable
- unhygienic
- virally
Examplesofinfesting
infesting
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
However, reversing this sequence, by planting either proso millet or sun-ower before corn, is not effective because of extensive volunteer crop plantsinfestingcorn.
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It is a polyphagous pestinfestinga wide range of commercial crops such as maize, castor, peach, sorghum, turmeric, ginger, durian, sunflower and cotton.
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The highest intensity was 71 monogeneans of 4 speciesinfestinga single host.
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Influence of exposure period and management methods on the effectiveness of chickens as predators of ticksinfestingcattle.
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Description of a microscopic entozooninfestingthe muscles of the human body.
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Many host species fail to develop adequate immunity to a tickinfestingthem, even after prolonged exposure.
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The proportionality between maximum abundances of the cereal aphids was studied using a 10-year census of the numbers of aphidsinfesting268 winter wheat plots.
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Differences were found between lice on farmed and wild salmon, between lice on farmed salmon in different bays and even putative individual ' farm markers ' within lice populationsinfestingsea trout.
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This mixture of age classes in 'mid' and 'late' core samplings resulted from the development of larvaeinfestingrice early after flooding and continued reinfestation of rice by later-arriving females.
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The trouble should be put right at the beginning, by the preven- tion of wood hornets from descending into the pits andinfestingthem.
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I do not necessarily think that it would apply to dry rotinfestingland.
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That behaviour is another example of the corporate greed that seems to beinfestingour economic system at the moment.
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It will protect them from the sharks who areinfestingthe house-letting business these days.
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Nothing is more certain to attract the speculative sharksinfestingthe landlord and tenant sea than the smell of blood.
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However, the infected citizen they were studying gets loose and beginsinfestingthe helicarrier with pods and goop.
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