PEST

pest

(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”

pest, blighter, cuss, pesterer, gadfly

(noun) a persistently annoying person

plague, pestilence, pest

(noun) any epidemic disease with a high death rate

plague, pestilence, pest, pestis

(noun) 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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Proper noun

Pest

(historical) One of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the Hungarian capital, Budapest.

Coordinate terms: Buda, Óbuda

The corresponding part of the current-day Budapest, on the eastern side of the Danube.

Coordinate term: Buda

Anagrams

• EPTs, ESTP, PETs, STEP, Sept, Sept., TPEs, Teps, pets, sept, sept-, spet, step, step-

Etymology

Noun

pest (plural pests)

(originally) A plague, pestilence, epidemic

Any destructive insect or caterpillar that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest.

An annoying person, a nuisance.

An animal regarded as a nuisance, destructive, or a parasite, vermin.

An invasive weed.

Synonyms

• (creature): bug

Anagrams

• EPTs, ESTP, PETs, STEP, Sept, Sept., TPEs, Teps, pets, sept, sept-, spet, step, step-

Source: Wiktionary

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Pest, n. Etym: [L. pestis: cf. F. peste.]

1. A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague. England's sufferings by that scourge, the pest. Cowper.

2. Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance. "A pest and public enemy." South.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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