Pest

[pest] or [pɛst]

Definition

(noun.) any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.; 'he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests'; 'many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides'.

(noun.) a persistently annoying person.

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Definition

(n.) A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague.

(n.) Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Plague, pestilence, infection, fatal epidemic, infectious disease.[2]. Contamination, poison, taint, bane, scourge, curse, infliction, nuisance, great annoyance.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Plague, nuisance, curse, annoyance, blight, bone, scourge

ANT:Benefit, blessing, acquisition

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Definition

n. a deadly disease: a plague: anything destructive: a troublesome person.—n. Pest′house a hospital for persons afflicted with any contagious disease.—adj. Pestif′erous contagious: pestilent: annoying.—adv. Pestif′erously.—n. Pest′ilence any contagious deadly disease: anything that is hurtful to the morals.—adjs. Pest′ilent producing pestilence: hurtful to health and life: mischievous: corrupt: troublesome; Pestilen′tial of the nature of pestilence: producing pestilence: destructive.—advs. Pestilen′tially Pest′ilently.

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