English-Italian translations for rife

• diffuso
  Purtroppo, questo problema è diffuso e colpisce ogni comunità. Unfortunately, this problem is rife and it affects every community.
  Lo spopolamento rurale è un fenomeno ormai diffuso nonostante tutte le misure di sviluppo rurale adottate. Rural depopulation is rife, in spite of all the rural development measures.
  L'attuale governo comanda sulla base del capitalismo clientelare portando a uno sfruttamento diffuso nei luoghi di lavoro e a una forte limitazione dei diritti sindacali.The current government rules on the basis of crony capitalism. This is the result, with exploitation rife in the workplace and trade union rights severely limited.

Definition of rife

• Widespread, common, prevalent, current (mainly of unpleasant or harmful things
• Abounding; present in large numbers, plentiful
• Full of (mostly unpleasant or harmful things
• Having power; active; nimble
• Plentifully, abundantly

Examples

• Smallpox was rife after the siege had been lifted
• These woodlands are rife with red deer
• Watermelons are rife with seeds
• Many post-colonial governments were rife with lawlessness and corruption
• The snowdrops grow rife on the slopes of Mount Pembroke

Related words

• Tenerife
• trifecta
• loosestrife
• strife
• odoriferous
• auriferous
• sudoriferous
• thurifer
• aeriferous