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infested

adjective as in overrun

adjective as in diseased

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California health officials warn that the New World Screwworm could arrive in California from an infested traveler or animal, or from the natural travel of the parasitic flies.

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"Even if we put down rodenticide, they won't eat it. They are just not interested… Once these bins are infested with rats, the bin men don't want to collect it either."

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In early August, a person traveling from El Salvador to Maryland was discovered to have been infested, federal officials said.

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Inmates are housed in unsafe, dirty facilities infested with roaches and rats, Bonta said in a news conference Monday, and lack basic access to clean water and edible food.

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When trees are infested with a few thousand beetles they can cope, using resin to flush the beetles out.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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