Vermin Definition

vûrmĭn
noun
Various small animals, such as rats or cockroaches, that are destructive, annoying, or injurious to health.
American Heritage Medicine
Various insects, rodents, or other small animals regarded as pests because destructive, disease-carrying, etc., as flies, lice, rats, or weasels.
Webster's New World
Animals that prey on farm animals or game or that destroy crops.
American Heritage
Birds or other animals that kill game.
Webster's New World
People considered loathsome or repulsive.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Vermin

Noun

Singular:
vermin
Plural:
vermins

Origin of Vermin

  • From Norman vermin and Old French vermin, from Vulgar Latin *verminum (“vermin"), collective noun formed from Latin vermis (“worm"). See also worm.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French from Vulgar Latin vermīnum from Latin vermis worm wer-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Vermin Sentence Examples

  • This proves a temptation to the vermin too great to be resisted.

  • It is chiefly employed in destroying rats and other vermin, and in driving rabbits from their burrows.

  • One day there appeared upon the scene a piper clad in a fantastic suit, who offered for a certain sum of money to charm all the vermin into the Weser.

  • They were originally used to pursue foxes, badgers, otters and vermin.

  • One advantage of using edgings of this kind, especially in kitchen gardens, is that they do not harbour slugs and similar vermin, which all live edgings do, and often to a serious extent, if they are left to grow large.

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Words Starting With

VVEVER

Words Ending With

NINMIN

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Words Starting With V and Ending With N

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With V6 Letter Words Ending With N