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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!
Synonyms:
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, cuss, blighterplague, pestilence, pestnoun
any epidemic disease with a high death rate
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pesterer, canker, infestation, pestilence, pestis, gadfly, plague, 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, 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
Synonyms:
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?
Warmer, wetter conditions favor pest activity, if the experts are right about El Niño, the pest control industry will benefit, no doubt about that.
We view this as a high-quality service company ... (that) has also been a successful consolidator in the pest industry.
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.
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.
There are animal services that can come out and make recommendations, or pest control, or an exterminator, we recommend you have professionals deal with any pest control issue to help maintain the situation.
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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