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Meaning of 'pest' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . 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.

Meaning of 'pest' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . pest [ n]
Meaning (1):
- any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.
Example in sentence:
  • he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests;
  • many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides

Nearby Words:

pes pesade pesage pesane pesanted peschito pese peseta peshito peshitto

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