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• v  invade in great numbers
  the roaches infested our kitchen
• v  occupy in large numbers or live on a host
  the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North
• v  live on or in a host, as of parasites

• Drawn by artesian water, kangaroos infest Oxley Station, a cattle property in western New South Wales.
• A sea lamprey, one of millions of the slimy, eellike creatures that infest the Great Lakes, had sunk its teeth through her bathing suit, and was trying to attach its .
• Drawn by artesian water, kangaroos infest Oxley Station, a cattle property in western New South Wales.

• overrun
• invade

News & Articles

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• Lake Waccamaw State Park to undergo treatment for hydrilla infestation
  LAKE WACCAMAW - Starting next month, Lake Waccamaw State Park will be treated for a "significant" hydrilla infestation, according to the state.
  June 16, 2013 - The Fayetteville Observer

Quotes

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• Ernest Giles in Sydney Morning Herald
  The flies infest the whole air,wrote the explorer Ernest Giles in his field diary in 1876. "We can't help eating, drinking, and breathing flies; they go down our throats in spite of our teeth, and we wear them all over our bodies; they...
• Mike Crapo in Seattle Times
  This legislation is about more than forest fires,Crapo said. "It is about what happens after a tornado ...... It is about what happens after insects infest forests, threatening neighboring communities."
• Barry Goldwater in San Francisco Chronicle
  ...the heat of a presidential campaign, Johnson's opponent, Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, accepted the Republican nomination in July 1964 at the Cow Palace, saying, "Failures infest the jungles of Vietnam."