Infest is valid Scrabble Word

Is infest a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is infest valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
10 points in WWF

Definitions for INFEST in dictionary:

VERB:

to invade and swarm over
(of insects or animals) be present (in a place or site) in large numbers, typically so as to cause damage or disease
inhabit or overrun in unpleasantly large numbers
Mischievous; hurtful; harassing.
To trouble greatly by numbers or by frequency of presence; to disturb; to annoy; to frequent and molest or harass; as, fleas infest dogs and cats; a sea infested with pirates.
invade in great numbers
occupy in large numbers or live on a host
live on or in a host, as of parasites

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to overrun in large numbers

Words related to INFEST

infested12 infester11 infesters12 infesting13 infests10

Words that contain INFEST

infests10 infested12 infester11 disinfest13 infestant12 infesters12 infesting13 disinfests14 infestants13 disinfested16 infestation14 noninfested15 disinfestant16 disinfesting17 infestations15 disinfestants17 reinfestation16 disinfestation18 reinfestations17 disinfestations19

How to use INFEST in a sentence

They have been left to the protection of chance, with no other security, at a time when the Spaniards had fitted out a squadron, to infest and ravage our American dominions.
Its inhabitants, according to the unanimous reports of captives and various merchants, in skill and valor greatly exceed the other Mahometans who infest these seas.
There is always a strong military detachment here for the security of the road against robbers, who occasionally infest this neighbourhood.
My greatest annoyance here is the infinite number of bugs and fleas, which infest me by day and night most intolerably.
Jealousy is like a burning fire against those who infest love exercised towards a married partner, and it is a horrid fear for the loss of that love, 368.
A good way to keep them under is to make small holes, about an inch deep, and about the diameter of the little finger, round the plants which they infest.
This cursory review of the domestic condition of the Mormons would not be complete without some allusion to the Indians who infest the whole country.
It was also once permitted the evil spirits of our Earth to act by their wicked arts, and to infest the spirits of Jupiter who were with me.
I was thinking of the fact that the evil spirits of our Earth are not affected with shame when they infest others.
The rents are employed in keeping up large bands of armed followers and building strongholds, from which they infest the surrounding country.

It would, however, be useless to make the road till the gangs which infest it are put down.
That, and the Moros who infest these seas cause the harvest of nests involuntarily to be abandoned.
Some years since, while commanding an English ship-of-war, I had the good fortune to be sent on a roving commission against pirates that were supposed to infest that coast.
They pillage everything and infest all places, and have sacked and burned many maritime places of that great kingdom.
But perhaps it will suffice to instance the swarms of worthless ballads that infest drawing-rooms, as compositions which science would forbid.
The larvae tunnel in the tender shoots, often ruining the new growth, and they also infest the nuts.
They frequent all parts of the city, but literally infest Fourteenth street and the lower part of the Fifth avenue.
The farmers keep it to destroy the rats which infest house and store rooms.
Muyden is so near to Amsterdam, thai its cannon may infest the ships which enter that city.
While searching for the Fountain of Youth he would bump into Sympathetic Souls of the kind who infest Observation Cars and hold down Rocking-Chairs in front of Wooden Hotels.
These, said the Genius, are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like Cares and Passions that infest human Life.
Poverty, the inseparable companion of a manufacturing population, shews itself in the number of beggars that infest this road as well as that from Calais to Paris.
Infest is a word that Casey would have used often had he known its dictionary reputation.
His help had been engaged from the swarms of colored persons who infest the stations and public resorts along the coast.
The horrible staring eyes began again to infest his journey, and seemed to accompany him wherever he went.
And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.

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