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infested
adjective as in overrun
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Example Sentences
Australian researchers, who spent years towing seal-shaped decoys through waters infested with great white sharks, have determined that wrapping the lures in very bright lights — sort of like aquatic Christmas trees — seems to turn sharks away.
The most likely pathway for these pests to enter the state is by “hitchhiking” in fruits and vegetables brought back illegally by travelers as they return from infested regions of the world, or in packages of home-grown produce from other countries sent to California.
The fly species was first found in California in 1960 and has been reintroduced every year since 1966 by infested fruits and vegetables coming into the state.
My quest in Montana had tanked my health, opened my dreary eyes, infested my brain.
In April the ex-president called immigrants “not human.” and last month he called countries originally targeted by his Muslim ban “infested.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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