Uninfested
verb (used with object)
1.
to live in or overrun to an unwanted degree or in a troublesome manner, especially as predatory animals or vermin do:
Sharks infested the coastline.
2.
to be numerous in, as anything undesirable or troublesome:
the cares that infest the day.
3.
Archaic. to harass.
verb (transitive)
1.
to inhabit or overrun in dangerously or unpleasantly large numbers
2.
(of parasites such as lice) to invade and live on or in (a host)
infest in·fest (ĭn-fěst’)
v. in·fest·ed, in·fest·ing, in·fests
To live as a parasite in or on tissues or organs or on the skin and its appendages.
To inhabit or overrun in numbers large enough to be harmful, threatening, or obnoxious.
in’fes·ta’tion n.
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