infestとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfɛst/
• 韻: -ɛst

動詞

Aphids infest a rosebush

infest (三人称単数 現在形 infests, 現在分詞 infesting, 過去形および過去分詞形 infested)

1. (transitive) To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers; to plague, harass.

   Insects are infesting my basement!

   • 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:

     Sir, my liege,
     Do not infest your mind with beating on
     The strangeness of this business; at pick’d leisure
     Which shall be shortly, I’ll resolve you,
     Which to you shall seem probable, of every
     These happen’d accidents; till when, be cheerful
     And think of each thing well.

   • 1724, Daniel Defoe (attributed), “Introduction”, in A General History of the Pirates‎^[1], 2nd edition edition, London: T. Warner, page 24:

     I come now to speak of the Pyrates infesting the West-Indies, where they are more numerous than in any other Parts of the World, on several Reasons […]

   • 1791, Oliver Goldsmith, An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], volume 2CHAPTER=12, new edition, London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse, […], OCLC 877622212, page 275:

     It has often happened, that whole caravans have perished in crossing those deserts, either by the burning winds that infest them, or by the sands which are raised by the tempest, and overwhelm every creature in certain ruin.

   • 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], OCLC 364546898:

     Nor was the biscuit much better; nearly all of it was broken into hard, little gunflints, honeycombed through and through, as if the worms usually infesting this article in long tropical voyages had, in boring after nutriment, come out at the antipodes without finding anything.

2. (pathology, of a parasite) To invade a host plant or animal.

同意語

• beride, plague

関連する語

• infestation
• infestuous