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pest

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: pest

1
 n
a persistently annoying person
2
 n
any epidemic disease with a high death rate
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: pest
1

n a persistently annoying person

Synonyms:
blighter, cuss, gadfly, pesterer
Types:
nudnick, nudnik
(Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest
Type of:
persecutor, tormenter, tormentor
someone who torments

n 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”
Types:
vermin
any of various small animals or insects that are pests; e.g. cockroaches or rats
Type of:
animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
2

n any epidemic disease with a high death rate

Synonyms:
pestilence, plague
Type of:
epidemic disease
any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people

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

Synonyms:
pestilence, pestis, plague
Types:
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bubonic plague, glandular plague, pestis bubonica
the most common form of the plague in humans; characterized by chills, prostration, delirium and the formation of buboes in the armpits and groin; does not spread from person to person
plague pneumonia, pneumonic plague, pulmonic plague
a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person; characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever
septicemic plague
an especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream; does not spread from person to person
ambulant plague, ambulatory plague, pestis ambulans
a mild form of bubonic plague
Black Death, Black Plague
the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe
Type of:
epidemic disease
any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people
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