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pest   (TTS Sound)

The noun pest has 4 senses

• plague, pestilence, pest, pestis -- (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)


• plague, pestilence, pest -- (any epidemic disease with a high death rate)


• pest, blighter, cuss, pesterer, gadfly -- (a persistently annoying person)


• pest -- (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")