How to pronounce rife:
Example: "Prevailing winds"
Widespread, common, prevalent, current (mainly of unpleasant or harmful things).
Example: "Smallpox was rife after the siege had been lifted."
Abounding; present in large numbers, plentiful.
Example: "These woodlands are rife with red deer."
Full of (mostly unpleasant or harmful things).
Example: "Many post-colonial governments were rife with lawlessness and corruption."
Having power; active; nimble.
Plentifully, abundantly.
Example: "The snowdrops grow rife on the slopes of mount pembroke."