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pest
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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
  • a persistently annoying person
  • any epidemic disease with a high death rate
  • 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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