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Meaning of Infest | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ɪnˈfɛst

Definitions

Hostility.

obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

العربية أزعج
Čeština zamořit
Deutsch befallen
Galego infestar
Português infestar

Examples

“1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, 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 […]”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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