infestment

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English

Etymology

From infest +‎ -ment.

Noun

infestment (countable and uncountable, plural infestments)

  1. (dated) Synonym of infestation
    • 1924, Report of the Laboratory and Museum of Comparative Pathology of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, page 34:
      The foregoing represent all the infestments to occur as groups. The following are individual cases.