| infest | | |
| v. (motion) | 1. infest, overrun | invade in great numbers.; "the roaches infested our kitchen" |
| ~ invade, occupy | march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation.; "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939" |
| v. (stative) | 2. infest, invade, overrun | occupy in large numbers or live on a host.; "the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North" |
| ~ inhabit | be present in.; "sweet memories inhabit this house" |
| v. (stative) | 3. infest | live on or in a host, as of parasites. |
| ~ inhabit | be present in.; "sweet memories inhabit this house" |
| pestiferous | | |
| adj. | 1. dirty, pestiferous | contaminated with infecting organisms.; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms" |
| ~ infected, septic | containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms.; "a septic sore throat"; "a septic environment"; "septic sewage" |
| adj. | 2. pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguey | likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease.; "a pestilential malignancy in the air"; "plaguey fevers" |
| ~ epidemic | (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously.; "an epidemic outbreak of influenza" |
| adj. | 3. corruptive, perversive, pestiferous | tending to corrupt or pervert. |
| ~ evil | morally bad or wrong.; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds" |
| adj. | 4. annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing | causing irritation or annoyance.; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong" |
| ~ disagreeable | not to your liking.; "a disagreeable situation" |
| pestilence | | |
| n. (state) | 1. pest, pestilence, pestis, plague | a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal. |
| ~ epidemic disease | any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people. |
| ~ bubonic plague, glandular plague, pestis bubonica | the most common form of the plague in humans; characterized by chills, prostration, delirium and the formation of buboes in the armpits and groin; does not spread from person to person. |
| ~ plague pneumonia, pneumonic plague, pulmonic plague | a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person; characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever. |
| ~ septicemic plague | an especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream; does not spread from person to person. |
| n. (state) | 2. pest, pestilence, plague | any epidemic disease with a high death rate. |
| ~ epidemic disease | any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. canker, pestilence | a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of.; "racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation"; "according to him, I was the canker in their midst" |
| ~ influence | a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do.; "her wishes had a great influence on his thinking" |
| plague | | |
| n. (group) | 1. infestation, plague | a swarm of insects that attack plants.; "a plague of grasshoppers" |
| ~ swarm, cloud | a group of many things in the air or on the ground.; "a swarm of insects obscured the light"; "clouds of blossoms"; "it discharged a cloud of spores" |
| n. (event) | 2. plague | any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God). |
| ~ calamity, catastrophe, tragedy, cataclysm, disaster | an event resulting in great loss and misfortune.; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster" |
| n. (cognition) | 3. plague | an annoyance.; "those children are a damn plague" |
| ~ pain in the ass, bother, botheration, pain in the neck, infliction, annoyance, pain | something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness.; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| v. (weather) | 4. blight, plague | cause to suffer a blight.; "Too much rain may blight the garden with mold" |
| ~ afflict, smite | cause physical pain or suffering in.; "afflict with the plague" |
| v. (emotion) | 5. beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke | annoy continually or chronically.; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" |
| ~ needle, goad | goad or provoke,as by constant criticism.; "He needled her with his sarcastic remarks" |
| ~ annoy, devil, gravel, irritate, nark, rile, vex, bother, nettle, rag, chafe, get at, get to | cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations.; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves" |
| ~ bedevil, dun, rag, crucify, frustrate, torment | treat cruelly.; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" |
| ~ haze | harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions. |
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