The Alpine town of Ischgl in Austria has become a hotbed for the virus.
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Hotbed
Synonyms for "hotbed" (35 found)
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39 translations across 20 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- بُؤْرَة noun (place ideal for the growth of something undesirable)
Bulgarian
2 entries- огнище noun (place ideal for the growth of something undesirable)
- разсадник noun (low bed of earth covered with glass)
Catalan
1 entries- fogar noun (place ideal for the growth of something undesirable)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 溫床 /温床 noun (place ideal for the growth of something undesirable)
Czech
1 entries- semeniště noun (place ideal for the growth of something undesirable)
Danish
2 entries- drivbænk noun (low bed of earth covered with glass)
- varmebed noun (low bed of earth covered with glass)
Dutch
1 entries- broeinest noun (place ideal for the growth of something undesirable)
Finnish
2 entries- kasvilava noun (low bed of earth covered with glass)
- pesä noun (place ideal for the growth of something undesirable)
French
1 entries- nid noun (place ideal for the growth of something undesirable)
German
4 entries- Brutstätte noun (place ideal for the growth of something undesirable)
- Frühbeet noun (low bed of earth covered with glass)
- Hort noun (place ideal for the growth of something undesirable)
- Mistbeet noun (low bed of earth covered with glass)
Hungarian
2 entries- melegágy noun (low bed of earth covered with glass)
- melegágy noun (place ideal for the growth of something undesirable)
Japanese
1 entries- 温床 noun (place ideal for the growth of something undesirable)
Korean
1 entries- 온상 noun (place ideal for the growth of something undesirable)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- arnested noun (place ideal for the growth of something undesirable)
Polish
4 entries- inspekt noun (low bed of earth covered with glass)
- siedlisko noun (place ideal for the growth of something undesirable)
- wylęgarnia noun (place ideal for the growth of something undesirable)
- zarzewie noun (place ideal for the growth of something undesirable)
Portuguese
1 entries- antro noun (place ideal for the growth of something undesirable)
Russian
2 entries- парни́к noun (low bed of earth covered with glass)
- расса́дник noun (place ideal for the growth of something undesirable)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- leglo noun (place ideal for the growth of something undesirable)
- nispet noun (low bed of earth covered with glass)
- topla gredica noun (low bed of earth covered with glass)
Spanish
4 entries- caldo de cultivo noun (place ideal for the growth of something undesirable)
- hervidero noun (place ideal for the growth of something undesirable)
- semillero noun (place ideal for the growth of something undesirable)
- terreno abonado noun (place ideal for the growth of something undesirable)
Swedish
1 entries- drivbänk noun (low bed of earth covered with glass)
Sample sentences
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The warehouse district is fast turning into a hotbed of criminal activity.
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The arid mountains to the West have become a hotbed of terrorist activity.
Source: tatoeba (8681104)
This part of Oran is a hotbed for vice.
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