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infested

adjective as in overrun

adjective as in diseased

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Within days the whole nursery had become infested.

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Toynbee documented their movement to suburbs, with the cities becoming predictably poorer, “infested with slums.”

Isra says she and her siblings were sometimes sleeping four to a room and that the places they were housed in were often infested with rats.

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If that makes you a little sick, if the whole thing feels a little unclean, that’s only because the internet has become a nauseous, infested place.

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The findings revealed that infested homes contained high amounts of endotoxins, with female cockroaches producing roughly twice as much as males.

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