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pest

English

  1. 🔊 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”
  2. 🔊 a persistently annoying person
  3. 🔊 any epidemic disease with a high death rate
  4. 🔊 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

Spanish

  1. 🔊 pesado pest, annoying person
  2. 🔊 cabreo pest, frustration, annoyance
  3. 🔊 molón pest, nuisance (annoying person)

Similar words

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