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: plague , pestilence , pestis ]

any epidemic disease with a high death rate

[ Syn: plague , pestilence ]

a persistently annoying person

[ Syn: blighter , cuss , pesterer , gadfly ]

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'