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pest 音标拼音: [p'ɛst] n. 瘟疫,鼠疫;害虫,害人虫
v. 烦扰,纠缠 瘟疫,鼠疫;害虫,害人虫烦扰,纠缠 pest n 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 [ synonym: { plague}, { pestilence}, { pest}, { pestis}] 2: any epidemic disease with a high death rate [ synonym: { plague}, { pestilence}, { pest}] 3: a persistently annoying person [ synonym: { pest}, { blighter}, { cuss}, { pesterer}, { gadfly}] 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" Pest \ Pest\, n. [ L. pestis: cf. F. peste.] 1. A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague. [ 1913 Webster] England' s sufferings by that scourge, the pest. -- Cowper. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance. " A pest and public enemy." -- South. [ 1913 Webster] 122 Moby Thesaurus words for " pest": affliction, aggravation, ambulatory plague, annoyance, annoyer, bad news, badgerer, bane, bedevilment, besetment, black death, black plague, blast, blight, bore, bother, botheration, bothersomeness, bubonic plague, bugbear, bully, burden, buttonholer, calamity, cancer, canker, cellulocutaneous plague, crashing bore, crushing burden, curse, death, defervescing plague, destruction, devilment, difficulty, disease, dogging, downer, drag, drip, dry rot, dryasdust, dusty, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic, evil, exasperation, flat tire, frightful bore, fungus, gadfly, glandular plague, grievance, harasser, harassment, harm, harrier, harrying, headache, heckler, hemorrhagic plague, hounding, humdrum, infliction, irritant, larval plague, mildew, mold, molestation, moth, moth and rust, murrain, must, nag, nemesis, nudnik, nudzh, nuisance, open wound, pandemia, pandemic, persecution, persecutor, pester, pesterer, pesthole, pestilence, pill, plague, plague spot, plaguer, pneumonic plague, premonitory plague, problem, proser, rot, running sore, rust, sadist, scourge, septicemic plague, siderating plague, smut, tease, teaser, thorn, torment, tormentor, trial, trouble, tuberculosis, twaddler, vexation, vexatiousness, visitation, wet blanket, white plague, woe, worm, worriment, worry
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