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1. (n.) pest
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
2. pest
an insect or other small animal that harms or destroys garden plants, trees, etc.
3. pest
a deadly epidemic disease, esp. a plague; pestilence.
Etymology: (1545–55; < L pestis plague)
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| Definition of 'PEST' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) plague, pestilence, pest, pestis
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
2. (noun) plague, pestilence, pest
any epidemic disease with a high death rate
3. (noun) pest, blighter, cuss, pesterer, gadfly
a persistently annoying person
4. (noun) pest
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"
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1. (noun) pest
sb who is annoying; = nuisance
Her daughter can be a real pest.
2. pest
a small animal or insect that causes damage
domestic pest control
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| Definition of 'PEST' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) PEST
a fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague
2. (noun) PEST
anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance
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Sense: a creature that is harmful or destructive, eg a mosquito, a rat etc.
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 Afrikaans: plaag |
 Arabic: وَباء، طاعون |
 Bulgarian: вредител |
 Brazilian: praga |
 Czech: škůdce |
 German: die Plage |
 Danish: skadedyr |
 Greek: επιβλαβές ζώο ή φυτό |
 Spanish: animal/insecto nocivo; pl |
 Estonian: kahjur |
 Farsi: آفت؛ حشره موذی |
 Finnish: tuhoeläin |
 French: animal/insecte nuisible |
 Hebrew: מַזִיק |
 Hindi: हानिकारक जीव |
 Croatian: štetočin, gamad |
 Hungarian: kártevő |
 Indonesian: hama |
 Icelandic: skaðvaldur, plága |
 Italian: parassita, (animale nociv |
 Japanese: 害虫 |
 Korean: 해충 |
 Lithuanian: kenkėjas |
 Latvian: parazīts, kaitēklis |
 Malay: perosak |
 Dutch: ongedierte |
 Norwegian: skadedyr/-insekt |
 Polish: szkodnik |
 Persian: آفت؛ حشره موذی |
 Pashto: وبا،بلا، تا وون (طاعون ) |
 Portuguese: praga |
 Romanian: dăunător |
 Russian: вредитель |
 Slovak: škodca |
 Slovenian: golazen |
 Serbian: štetočina |
 Swedish: skadedjur |
 Thai: สัตว์รบกวน |
 Turkish: zararlı yaratık |
 Taiwanese: 有害的動物，害蟲 |
 Ukrainian: шкідлива комаха; паразит |
 Urdu: نقصان پہنچانے والے جانور |
 Vietnamese: loài phá hoại |
 Chinese: 害虫 |
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