| 单词 | pest |
| 释义 | pest (once / 1719 pages) 1n 2n A pest is something or someone that bugs you. That annoying mosquito that keeps you up at night is a pest, and so is that younger brother who wants to control the TV remote. An unwanted, bothersome person is a pest — and so is an unwanted, bothersome bug. In fact, the "destructive or harmful insect" definition came before "annoying person," following the "plague or pestilence" meaning of pest. The Latin root is pestis, "deadly contagious disease." During the Late Middle Ages, when the bubonic plague killed a third of all humans, it was commonly known as "the pest." WORD FAMILYpest: pests USAGE EXAMPLESIt was the sixth such incident recorded of this dangerous pest in the last six weeks at Port of Savannah. Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) Forests in some states, like New York, are close to major trade routes, while others, like in Florida, house trees especially susceptible to pests. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) The Bayer Bee Care Center in Germany includes menacing sculptures of the little pest. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1 1n a persistently annoying person Syn|Hypo|Hyper blighter, cuss, gadfly, pesterer nudnick, nudnik (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest persecutor, tormenter, tormentor someone who torments 2n any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc. 2he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides Hypo|Hyper vermin any of various small animals or insects that are pests; e.g. cockroaches or rats animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna a living organism characterized by voluntary movement 1n any epidemic disease with a high death rate Syn|Hyper pestilence, plague epidemic disease any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people 2n 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 Syn|Hypo|Hyper pestilence, pestis, plague bubonic plague, glandular plague, pestis bubonica the most common form of the plague in humans; characterized by chills, prostration, delirium and the formation of buboes in the armpits and groin; does not spread from person to person plague pneumonia, pneumonic plague, pulmonic plaguea rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person; characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever septicemic plaguean especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream; does not spread from person to person ambulant plague, ambulatory plague, pestis ambulansa mild form of bubonic plague Black Death, Black Plaguethe epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe epidemic disease any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people |
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