infest

infest englannista suomeksi

1. vaivata

2. olla kiusana

3. kuhista

0. Verbi

0. Substantiivi

infest englanniksi

1. To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers; to plague, harass.

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2. (RQ:Shakespeare Tempest)

3. (quote-book) (attributed)|title=A General History of the Pirates|location=London|publisher=T. Warner|edition=2nd|chapter=Introduction|page=24|url=https://archive.org/details/generalhistoryof00defo|text=I come now to speak of the Pyrates infesting the ''West-Indies'', where they are more numerous than in any other Parts of the World, on several Reasons (..)

4. (RQ:Goldsmith History of the Earth)

5. (RQ:Melville Omoo)

6. To invade a host plant or animal.

7. Mischievous; hurtful; harassing.

8. (RQ:Ovid Golding Metamorphosis), ''The History of English Poetry'', Volume 3, London: J. Dodsley et al., 1781, Section 40, p. 412,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004896806.0001.003|passage=(..) The swarme of scaled snakesDid 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.

9. (RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)

10. Hostility.

11. 1590, (w), ''(w)'', 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 (..)