Dictionary Entry
pest
pest is a 4-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 6 senses
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- 1noun
A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague.
- 2noun
Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance.
- 3noun
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"
- 4noun
a persistently annoying person
- 5noun
any epidemic disease with a high death rate
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- 6noun
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
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