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Answer : PEST
pest – n
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”
SYNONYMS
blight, bug, contagion, epidemic, infection, plague, scourge, virus, annoyance, badgerer, bane, blister, bore, bother, botheration, creep
EXAMPLES
“It is the most serious pest of cotton in the West Indies.”
“He rolled his eyes at Jackson and muttered, “She is such a pest, no wonder you dumped her.””
“All right, suppose we bought a jar of live Praying Mantises at our neighborhood pest control store.”
ETYMOLOGY
1550s (in imprecations, “a pest upon ____,” etc.), “plague, pestilence, epidemic disease,” from French peste (1530s), from Latin pestis “deadly contagious disease; a curse, bane,” a word of uncertain origin. Meaning “any noxious, destructive, or troublesome person or thing” is attested by c. 1600. Pest-house “hospital for persons suffering from infectious diseases” is from 1610s.
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