Crossword-Solution: INFESTING 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Infesting p. pr. & vb. n. of Infest

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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEATR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INFESTING (5)

This tradition is alluded to in the following stanza:— ‘I have a gallant mare in stall; My mother gave that mare That I might seek Count Pepe’s hall And steal his son and heir.’ Martin Del Rio, in his _Tractatus de Magia_, speaks of the Gypsies and their Counts to the following effect: ‘When, in the year 1584, I was marching in Spain with the regiment, a multitude of these wretches were infesting the fields.
The Zincali George Borrow 2019
Van Harlingen's patient, a man of forty-seven, had never lived out of Philadelphia, so that the worm must be included among the parasites infesting this country.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould 1996
Thus, fairly, all things perish, when with ebbing They're made less dense and when from blows without They are laid low; since food at last will fail Extremest eld, and bodies from outside Cease not with thumping to undo a thing And overmaster by infesting blows.
Of The Nature of Things [Titus Lucretius Carus] Lucretius 1997
Not long after my arrival I heard a curious legend, to the effect that away on the other side of the lagoon there was an "evil spirit" infesting the waters, which terrified the women when they went down to fill their skins.
The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont Louis de Rougemont 2007
The route bends westward this time; towards Frankfurt-on-Mayn; there yachts are to be ready; and mere sailing thenceforth, gallantly down the Rhine-stream,--such a yacht-voyage, in the summer weather, with no Tourists yet infesting it,--to end, happily we will hope, at Wesel, in the review of regiments, and other business.
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. VII. (of XXI.) Thomas Carlyle 2000

Quotes with INFESTING (3)

People that hold onto hate for so long do so because they want to avoid dealing with their pain. They falsely believe if they forgive they are letting their enemy believe they are a doormat. What they don’t understand is hatred can’t be isolated or turned off. It manifests in their health, choices and belief systems. Their values and religious beliefs make adjustments to justify their negative emotions. Not unlike malware infesting a hard drive, their spirit slowly becomes co…
Shannon L. Alder
When you are quite well enough to travel, Latimer, I shall take you home with me. The journey will amuse you and do you good, for I shall go through the Tyrol and Austria, and you will see many new places. Our neighbours, the Filmores, are come; Alfred will join us at Basle, and we shall all go together to Vienna, and back by Prague...'My father was called away before he had finished his sentence, and he left my mind resting on the word Prague with a strange sense that a new …
George Eliot The Lifted Veil
You may not see massive UFO exhibits at your local science museum, but there's no dearth of saucer stories infesting my email. Every day, I receive several reports of alien sightings, extraterrestrial plans for Earth, and agitated screeds about the reluctance of scientists to take the whole subject seriously.
Seth Shostak
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 2 times in crossword archives (1955–1972).