pest

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

noun

1. 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
• Syn:
plague, pestilence, pestis
• Derivationally related forms:
plague (for: plague)
• Hypernyms:
epidemic disease
• Hyponyms:
bubonic plague, pestis bubonica, glandular plague, pneumonic plague, pulmonic plague,
plague pneumonia, septicemic plague
2. any epidemic disease with a high death rate
• Syn:
plague, pestilence
• Derivationally related forms:
pestilential (for: pestilence), pestilent (for: pestilence), plaguey (for: plague), plague (for: plague)
• Hypernyms:
epidemic disease
3. a persistently annoying person
• Syn:
blighter, cuss, pesterer, gadfly
• Derivationally related forms:
pester (for: pesterer)
• Hypernyms:
tormentor, tormenter, persecutor
• Hyponyms:
nudnik, nudnick
4. 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
• Hypernyms:
animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
• Hyponyms:
vermin

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  blighter, cuss, pesterer, gadfly, plague, pestilence, pestis