Australian English Meaning of pest

pest

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Definitions and Meaning of pest in English

Wordnet

pest (n)

a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

any epidemic disease with a high death rate

a persistently annoying person

any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.

Webster

pest (n.)

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

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

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pest

a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infec

plague,epidemic,pestilence,Blight,contagion,Curse,illness,Infection,infirmity,Malaise

charmer,smoothie,comforter,smoothie,comforter

pessulus => bolt, pessuli => pessuli, pessimum => pessimum, pessimize => pessify, pessimistically => pessimistically,