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n. Various small animals or insects, such as rats or cockroaches, that are destructive, annoying, or injurious to health.

n. Animals that prey on game, such as foxes or weasels.

n. A person considered loathsome or highly offensive.

n. Such people considered as a group.

n. Animals that prey on game, such as foxes or weasels.

n. An animal, in general.

n. A noxious or mischievous animal; especially, noxious little animals or insects, collectively, as squirrels, rats, mice, worms, flies, lice, bugs, etc.

n. Hence, in contempt, noxious human beings.

n. Any noxious or troublesome animal: mostly used in a collective sense.

n. A worm; a reptile.

n. A noxious or disgusting insect, especially a parasite; particularly, a louse, a bedbug, or a flea, A mammal or bird injurious to game, aud mischievous or troublesome in game-preserves: chiefly an English usage. Such quadrupeds as badgers, otters, weasels, polecats, rats, and mice, and such birds as hawks and owls, are all called vermin.

n. Hence A contemptible or obnoxious person; a low or vile fellow; also, such persons collectively.

To rid or clear of vermin.

n. any of various small animals or insects that are pests; e.g. cockroaches or rats

n. an irritating or obnoxious person

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pest    bad person   

varmint   

anima   

ermin    termine   

rodent    flea    cockroach    louse    pest    bug    mosquito    insect    rat    reptile