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pest
  1. (originally) A plague, pestilence, epidemic
  2. An annoying, harmful, often destructive creature.
  3. An invasive weed
  4. An annoying person.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “We have to find out where this guy has been, what he has come into contact with, and if he was bitten by a pest.”
      “From the perspective of traditional Chinese culture, pests and famines reflect the current administration's lack of moral values and deviation from divine will.”
      “Their joy at finding their lost sister has worn off. Because she is back to being an annoying pest.”
pesticide
  1. Anything, especially a synthetic substance but also any substance (e.g. sulfur), or virus, bacterium, or other organism, which kills or suppresses the activities of pests.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Once volatilized, a pesticide can move in air currents away from the treated surface.”
      “Tests have found about one in seven UK lettuces with above approved levels of a pesticide, the Government announced yesterday.”
      “This echoes the wave of such birth deformities following the US's use of the pesticide Agent Orange as a chemical weapon in the Vietnam War.”
pestilence
  1. Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death, was a devastating pestilence that swept through Europe in the 14th century, claiming the lives of millions.”
      “The economic recession proved to be a pestilence for small businesses, causing widespread distress and misfortune.”
      “They were so undernourished that they easily became ill from consumption, fevers, pestilence, and a variety of other disorders.”
pesthouse
  1. An establishment which provides shelter and/or care to sufferers of pestilence or other contagious infections
  2. Examples:
    1. “My mother would sooner have entered a pesthouse than the banqueting-hall where they feast, on Olympus.”
      “There are better reasons for putting such a man in the pesthouse than one who has smallpox.”
      “At this broad hint, the curious crowd reluctantly withdrew, and left the trio alone at the pesthouse threshold.”
pesthole
  1. A place where a pest (contagious disease) is present or likely
  2. Examples:
    1. “Three American doctors went down into that pesthole of a Cuban city to offer their lives for a theory.”
      “Epidemiological supervision for pesthole of encephalitis in recreational zone of big city.”
      “Epidemiological supervision for the pesthole of encephalitis in the recreational zone of a big city.Distribution of ixodid ticks and encephalitis pestholes in Leningrad.”
pestology
  1. The study of pests.
pestilences
  1. plural of pestilence
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The physician's challenge is the curing of disease, educating the people in the laws of health, and preventing the spread of plagues and pestilences.”
      “The pestilences and plagues of the 14th century had bred an inordinate fear of death, which led to the exploitation of simple people by a church that was, in effect, offering salvation for sale.”
      “The great relisher of London's dark crevices now can't stop mentioning his wife Anna, his beloved companion through decades of burglaries and rat infestations and other pestilences.”
pesthouses
  1. plural of pesthouse
pesticides
  1. plural of pesticide
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  3. Examples:
    1. “We also account for the disposal of waste water polluted by fertilizers, as well as by pesticides and herbicides.”
      “Farm pesticides and weedkillers have had a devastating effect on Europe's bird populations, according to a study released today.”
      “The pesticides being produced were organophosphates, carbamates and pyrethroids.”
pestholes
  1. plural of pesthole
  2. Examples:
    1. “Epidemiological supervision for the pesthole of encephalitis in the recreational zone of a big city.Distribution of ixodid ticks and encephalitis pestholes in Leningrad.”
pests
  1. plural of pest
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Fisher believes this new device will revolutionize detection of root-feeding pests like the weevil.”
      “Researchers at some locations focus on beneficial insects like wasps to control insect pests such as alfalfa weevils or gypsy moths.”
      “Free-range chickens, turkeys and guineas will feed on ticks and other pests, such as grasshoppers, Japanese beetles and mosquitoes.”
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