PEST

pest. pest, the plague, or pestilence

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pest. Pest, n. a plague, mischief, bane, destruction, ruin

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Pest (?), n. [[L. pestis: cf. F. peste.]] 1. 1. A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague.
England's sufferings by that scourge, the pest. Cowper. 2. 2. Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance. “A pest and public enemy.” South.