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Synonyms for PEST
pɛstpest
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Wiktionary
pestnoun
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bugpestnoun
A plague, pestilence, epidemic
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bugpestnoun
An annoying, harmful, often destructive creature.
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bugpestnoun
An annoying person.
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bugpestnoun
Someone with poor social discipline who continually bothers disinterested women.
Stop being such a pest and leave that girl alone!
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bug
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Princeton's WordNet
plague, pestilence, pest, pestisnoun
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
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pesterer, canker, infestation, pestilence, pestis, gadfly, plague, pest, cuss, blighterplague, pestilence, pestnoun
any epidemic disease with a high death rate
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pesterer, canker, infestation, pestilence, pestis, gadfly, plague, pest, cuss, blighterpest, blighter, cuss, pesterer, gadflynoun
a persistently annoying person
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pesterer, feller, expletive, lad, swearing, curse word, bloke, oath, pestilence, pestis, blighter, pest, gent, gadfly, cuss, chap, curse, swearword, fellow, plague, fellapestnoun
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"
Synonyms:
gadfly, cuss, plague, pestilence, blighter, pesterer, pestis
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
pestnoun
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plague, pestilence, infection, fatal epidemic, infectious diseasepestnoun
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contamination, poison, taint, bane, scourge, curse, infliction, nuisance, great annoyance
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
pestnoun
Synonyms:
pestilence, plague, scourge, curse, nuisance, annoyance, infliction, bane
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#2043 | bug | |
#4053 | bone | |
#4245 | fellow | |
#8315 | pest | |
#9672 | harmful | |
#10696 | insect | |
#11618 | curse | |
#13304 | beetle | |
#14725 | oath | |
#15162 | chap | |
#15784 | plague | |
#16876 | pests | |
#16988 | lad | |
#18349 | nuisance | |
#20432 | parasites | |
#20858 | parasite | |
#25238 | gent | |
#26187 | parasitic | |
#27225 | swearing | |
#27794 | blight | |
#28022 | annoyance | |
#30674 | bloke | |
#33759 | infestation | |
#34199 | fella | |
#35321 | scourge | |
#48422 | vermin | |
#50666 | feller | |
#52356 | canker | |
#53412 | cuss | |
#55135 | pestilence | |
#60763 | gadfly | |
#61525 | phytosanitary | |
#73942 | expletive | |
#80193 | pestis |
How to use PEST in a sentence?
I have a good time and the farmers get rid of a pest. As you look at the soybean fields, you'll see what we call 'ice cream cones.' The point of the ice cream cone is where the groundhog's burrow is. He'll eat in a semicircle out from his burrow. Groundhogs love eating fresh soybeans coming out of the ground. i'm a hunter but if I don't eat it, I don't shoot it and I don't eat woodchuck.
The vast majority of slugs and snails feed on dead or rotting vegetation so I wouldn't call them the gardener's pest, they get a bad press.
We view this as a high-quality service company ... (that) has also been a successful consolidator in the pest industry.
So we can, through the use of drones, understand how pesticides are working, understand pest problems better and potentially eliminate the need for pesticides in areas where it actually was a fungal problem and not a pest problem.
Moths that feed on grains are a very common type of insect that invades homes, the Indian Meal Moth’s favorite food is bird seed. A homeowner inadvertently brings them into their home by purchasing a bag of birdseed that is infested, and within a few weeks, a home can become infested with moth larvae and adults. To avoid an infestation, carefully check over a bird seed bag for moth larvae, adults, and webbing before buying — and then keep it stored in a tightly sealed plastic bin to avoid attracting animals.Is your city on this list of the most pest-infested ? Spills happen — but if even a little bit of the mess is left behind, the bugs simply ca n’t resist.
Translations for PEST
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- آفةArabic
- pesta, plagaCatalan, Valencian
- plageånd, plage, skadedyr, pestilensDanish
- Schädling, Nervensäge, QuälgeistGerman
- μάστιγα, λοιμός, πανούκλα, πληγή, ζιζάνιοGreek
- plagoEsperanto
- moscardón, pestilencia, epidemia, peste, parásitoSpanish
- kiusankappale, kiusanhenki, maanvaiva, tuhoeläinFinnish
- insecte, pesteFrench
- plàighScottish Gaelic
- kártevőHungarian
- meindýrIcelandic
- pesteItalian
- 害虫Japanese
- მავნებელიGeorgian
- pestLatin
- pōrearea, nanakia, orotā, kīreareaMāori
- plaag, lastpak, pestDutch
- doo yildiniiNavajo, Navaho
- szkodnikPolish
- pragaPortuguese
- dăunătorRomanian
- мор, чума́, вреди́тель, парази́тRussian
- dosadnjáković, štȅtnīk, štetòčina, dosàdnjākSerbo-Croatian
- ศัตรูพืชThai
- haşereTurkish
- dämabanimil, minimil, dämabaplan, dämabanim, dämabanäsäkVolapük
- pesseWalloon
- פּעסטYiddish
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