INFESTED: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for INFESTED?

Need another word that means the same as “infested”? Find 30 related words for “infested” in this overview.

Associations of "Infested" (30 Words)

apiary	A place where bees are kept; a collection of beehives.
arachnid	Relating to or denoting arachnids.
bee	An insect of a large group to which the honeybee belongs including many solitary as well as social kinds. A sewing bee.
bug	A concealed miniature microphone, used for secret eavesdropping or recording. A custom program we used developed a bug.
butterfly	Having a two lobed shape resembling the spread wings of a butterfly. Butterfly the shrimp using a small sharp knife.
cockroach	A scavenging insect that resembles a beetle, having long antennae and legs and typically a broad, flattened body. Several tropical kinds have become established worldwide as household pests.
dragonfly	A fast-flying long-bodied predatory insect with two pairs of large transparent wings which are spread out sideways at rest. The voracious aquatic larvae take up to five years to reach adulthood.
exterminator	A person whose job is to eradicate pests from a building or area; a pest controller. He became an exterminator of pumas tracking them down in dark caverns.
flea	A small wingless jumping insect which feeds on the blood of mammals and birds. It sometimes transmits diseases through its bite, including plague and myxomatosis.
grasshopper	A plant-eating insect with long hind legs which are used for jumping and for producing a chirping sound, frequenting grassy places and low vegetation.
hive	Of bees enter a hive. He hived lots of information.
horde	A moving crowd. A horde of beery rugby fans.
housefly	A common small fly occurring worldwide in and around human habitation. Its eggs are laid in decaying material, and the fly can be a health hazard due to its contamination of food.
infestation	A swarm of insects that attack plants. Efforts were made to deal with an infestation of rats in the building.
insect	A small arthropod animal that has six legs and generally one or two pairs of wings. Insect pests.
itch	Have or perceive an itch. I itched all over.
louse	Remove lice from.
mite	A minute arachnid which has four pairs of legs when adult, related to the ticks. Many kinds live in the soil and a number are parasitic on plants or animals.
mosquito	Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals.
moth	A clothes moth. I store my sweaters in plastic bags to protect them from moths.
nit	A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source. You stupid nit.
overrun	Continue beyond or above an expected or allowed time or cost. The aircraft crossed the overrun and rolled down an embankment.
parasitic	(of an organism) living as a parasite. Mortality from parasitic diseases.
pest	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. He was a real pest.
scorpion	Used in names of arachnids and insects resembling a scorpion e g false scorpion water scorpion.
spider	Used in names of arachnids similar or related to spiders e g sea spider sun spider. A treecreeper spidered head first down the tree trunk.
swarm	Of flying insects move in or form a swarm. Protesters were swarming into the building.
tarantula	A very large hairy spider found chiefly in tropical and subtropical America, some kinds of which are able to catch small lizards, frogs, and birds.
termite	A small, pale soft-bodied insect that lives in large colonies with several different castes, typically within a mound of cemented earth. Many kinds feed on wood and can be highly destructive to trees and timber.
vermin	Wild animals that are believed to be harmful to crops, farm animals, or game, or which carry disease, e.g. rodents. Killed as vermin or game the pumas have gone.