infest

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Hostility. obsolete,uncountable
    — 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book II, Canto Eleven, Stanza 32, Hackett, 2006, p. 191, Like as a fire, the which in hollow cave Hath long bene underkept, and down supprest, With murmurous disdayne doth inly rave, And grudge, in so streight prison to be prest, At last breakes forth with furious infest, And strives to mount unto his native seat […]
动词 v.
  1. To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers; to plague, harass. transitive
    — Insects are infesting my basement!
  2. To invade a host plant or animal.
形容词 adj.
  1. Mischievous; hurtful; harassing. obsolete
    — […] The swarme of scaled snakes Did make an yrksome noyce to heare, as she her tresses shakes. About her shoulders some did craule, some trayling downe her brest, Did hisse, and spit out poison greene, and spirt with tongues infest.

词形变化

infests present,singular,third-person infesting participle,present infested participle,past infested past more infest comparative most infest superlative

词汇关系

近义词
beride plague
衍生词
disinfest infestive infestment preinfest reinfest
相关词
infestation infestuous

词源

词源 1
From Middle English infesten, from Old French infester (“to infest”), from Latin īnfestō (“assail, molest”, verb), from īnfestus (“hostile”), of uncertain origin.
词源 2
From Middle English infesten, from Old French infester (“to infest”), from Latin īnfestō (“assail, molest”, verb), from īnfestus (“hostile”), of uncertain origin.
词源 3
From Middle English infesten, from Old French infester (“to infest”), from Latin īnfestō (“assail, molest”, verb), from īnfestus (“hostile”), of uncertain origin.
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