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infested

adjective as in overrun

adjective as in diseased

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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."

From BBC

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

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.

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

From BBC

Those most at risk are people working with livestock or those living in rural areas where infested livestock are present.

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

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