infest

tr.v., -fest·ed, -fest·ing, -fests.

1. To inhabit or overrun in numbers or quantities large enough to be harmful, threatening, or obnoxious: rats infesting the sewers; streets that were infested with drugs.
2. To live as a parasite in or on: livestock that were infested with tapeworms.

[Middle English infesten, to distress, from Old French infester, from Latin īnfestāre, from īnfestus, hostile.]

infestation in'fes·ta'tion n.
infester in·fest'er n.

Parasitic attack or subsistence on the skin and/or its appendages, as by insects, mites or ticks; sometimes used to denote parasitic invasion of the organs and tissues, as by helminths.

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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - plage, hjemsøge, være befængt med

Nederlands (Dutch)
teisteren, zich verspreiden over, parasiteren

Français (French)
v. tr. - infester

Deutsch (German)
v. - befallen, heimsuchen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - λυμαίνομαι, μαστίζω, κατακλύζω, γεμίζω

Italiano (Italian)
infestare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - infestar

Русский (Russian)
наводнять, паразитировать

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - infestar, plagar

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - hemsöka, översvämma, härja på (i), göra osäker

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
骚扰, 大批出没, 群居于

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 騷擾, 大批出沒, 群居於

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 횡행하다, 몰려들다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 横行する, はびこる, 群がる, 寄生する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يزعج, يغزو بكثرة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮שרץ, פשט, רחש‬

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