Portuguese

Proper noun

Rife m

1. Rif (a traditional region in northern Morocco)

English

Adjective

rife ‎(comparative rifer, superlative rifest)

1. Widespread, common (especially of unpleasant or harmful things).

   Smallpox was rife after the siege had been lifted.

   • Arbuthnot

     Before the plague of London, inflammations of the lungs were rife and mortal.

   • Milton

     The tumult of loud mirth was rife.

   • 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 170:

     The 'denominational considerations' mentioned below relate, of course, to anti-Semitic feeling, which was already rife in Vienna during the last years of the nineteenth century.

   • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic climbs highest to sink Benfica (in The Guardian, 15 May 2013)

     They will have to reflect on a seventh successive defeat in a European final while Chelsea try to make sense of an eccentric season rife with controversy and bad feeling but once again one finishing on an exhilarating high.

2. Abounding; present in large numbers, plentiful.

   These woodlands are rife with red deer.

3. (obsolete) Having power; active; nimble.
   • J. Webster

     What! I am rife a little yet.

Translations

Adverb

rife ‎(comparative more rife, superlative most rife)

1. Plentifully, abundantly.

   The snowdrops grow rife on the slopes of Mount Pembroke.

Translations

Anagrams

• fire, refi

Spanish

Verb

rife

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rifar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of rifar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of rifar.