Infested vs Infefted - What's the difference?
infested | infefted |
(infest)
To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers
(pathology, of a parasite) To invade a host plant or animal
(infeft)
* 1843 , '', book 2, chapter XII, ''The Abbot’s Troubles
* 1885 ,
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As verbs the difference between infested and infefted
is that infested is (infest) while infefted is (infeft).infested
English
Verb
(head)infest
English
Verb
(en verb)- Insects are infesting my basement!
Synonyms
*Anagrams
* *infefted
English
Verb
(head)infeft
English
Verb
(head)- he alleged farther that his predecessors had been infeft , at the Conquest, in the lands of Alfric son of Wisgar, who was Lord of by all persons.
- […] while a minor he received a dispensation and special license from the king, dated 8 Jan. 1608, upon which by a precept from chancery he was infeft in all the lands possessed by his father on 26, 27, 28 and 29 April.
citation, genre= , publisher=Historical Association , isbn= , page= , passage=Not only had a vassal to be infeft' when a grant was made or confirmed: a successor had to be ' infeft when he took up his inheritance. }}