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ver·min (vʉr′mən)
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Alternate definitions:
vermin
n.
Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus Copyright © 1999 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Converse of subject
- damage: Cover for sails and covers, damaged by vermin.
Converse of object
- discourage: Eliminates wastage, discourages vermin, fresh/dry food every peck.
Adjective modifier
- other: Most of the game consists of rounding up rabbits or other vermin into the swirling vortex of your vacuum vehicle machine.
Modifies a noun
- proof: The bin which holds grain for milling into flour has been modified to be vermin proof in the interests of current standards of hygiene.
Noun used with modifier
- hunting: So we are now banned from hunting vermin with dogs, but are gleefully destroying valuable food species.
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No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep and burning hatred for theTory Party that inflicted those experiences on me. So far as I am concerned, theyare lower than vermin.
Given the state of the planet, humans, or some humans, must now be categorized as vermin.
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