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Venom vs Pest - What's the difference?

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Venom is a related term of pest.


As nouns the difference between venom and pest

is that venom is a poison carried by an animal, usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging; atter while pest is plague.

As a verb venom

is to infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.

venom

English

Noun

(wikipedia venom) (en noun)
  • A poison carried by an animal, usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging; atter.
  • * Milton
    • Hurtful worm with cankered venom bites.
  • (figuratively) Feeling or speech marked by spite or malice.
  • * Shakespeare
    • the venom of such looks

    Derived terms

    * nonvenomous * venomous

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.
    • Venomed vengeance. — Shakespeare.
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    Noun

    (head)
  • poison, venom

    • See also

    * venen * venod

    pest

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (originally) A plague, pestilence, epidemic
  • An annoying, harmful, often destructive creature.
  • An annoying person.
  • (British, slang) Someone with poor social discipline who continually bothers uninterested women.
    • Stop being such a pest and leave that girl alone!

    Synonyms

    * (creature ) bug

    Related terms

    * pester * pesthole * pesthouse * pesticidal, pesticide * pestiferous * pestilence, pestilent, pestilential

    Anagrams

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