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pest, pestilence, plague | any epidemic disease with a high death rate | |
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pest | any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc. | |
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gadfly, cuss, pest, blighter, pesterer | a persistently annoying person | |
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pest, pestilence, plague, 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 |