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ver·min (vʉr′mən)

noun pl. vermin -·min

  1. various insects, bugs, or small animals regarded as pests because destructive, disease-carrying, etc., as flies, lice, rats, or weasels
  2. Brit. birds or animals that kill game
    1. a vile, loathsome person
    2. such persons collectively

Etymology: ME < OFr vermine < L vermis, a worm

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vermin

n.

insects, bugs, pests, lice, rodents, cooties*. see also insect.

Vermin include: fly, flea, louse, weevil, chigger, earwig, mealybug, mite, mosquito, cockroach, bedbug, clothes moth, centipede, tick, silverfish or fish moth, rat, mouse, weasel;


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vermin Usage Examples

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.

-Bevan, Aneurin

Given the state of the planet, humans, or some humans, must now be categorized as vermin.

-Carey,John

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