ver·min

(vûr′mĭn)

pl.n.

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

2. Animals that prey on farm animals or game or that destroy crops.

3. People considered loathsome or repulsive.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *vermīnum, from Latin vermis, worm; see wer- in Indo-European roots.]

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vermin

(ˈvɜːmɪn)

npl -min

1. (Zoology) (functioning as plural) small animals collectively, esp insects and rodents, that are troublesome to man, domestic animals, etc

2. an unpleasant, obnoxious, or dangerous person

[C13: from Old French vermine, from Latin vermis a worm]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

ver•min

(ˈvɜr mɪn)

n., pl. ver•min.

1. noxious or objectionable animals collectively, esp. those of small size that appear commonly and are difficult to control, as flies, lice, cockroaches, and rats.

2. an objectionable or obnoxious person, or such persons collectively.

3. animals that prey upon game, as coyotes.

[1300–50; < Middle French vermin(e) < Latin vermināre to be infested with maggots, to have racking pains]

Vermin

a kind or class of obnoxious animal, 1400; applied to persons of an offensive nature, 1562.

Examples: vermin of the earth, 1690; of the soul, 1621.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	vermin - an irritating or obnoxious person varmint bad person - a person who does harm to others
	2.	vermin - any of various small animals or insects that are pests; e.g. cockroaches or rats; "cereals must be protected from mice and other vermin"; "he examined the child's head for vermin"; "boys in the village have probably been shooting vermin" pest - any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.; "he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests"; "many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides"

Translations

هوام، حَشَرات طُفَيْلِيَّه

havěť

skadedyr

Ungeziefer

tuhoeläintuholainen

vermine

férgek

meindÿr

animali nocivi

kenkėjaiparazitai

parazītisalašņas

вредитель паразит

háveď

haşaratzararlı hayvan

害虫害鸟寄生虫

vermin

[ˈvɜːmɪn] N

1. (lit) (= insects) → bichos mpl, sabandijas fpl; (= mammals) → alimañas fpl

2. (fig) (pej) (= people) → chusma f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

vermin

[ˈvɜː^rmɪn] npl

(= animals) → animaux mpl nuisibles, nuisibles mpl

(= insects) → vermine f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

vermin

n no pl

(= animal) → Schädling m

(= insects) → Ungeziefer nt

(pej: = people) → Pack nt, → Ungeziefer nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

vermin

[ˈvɜːmɪn] npl → animali mpl nocivi (fig) (pej) → parassiti mpl

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

vermin

(ˈvəːmin) noun

undesirable or troublesome pests such as fleas, rats, or mice. Farmers are always having trouble with various types of vermin; It is vermin such as these men that are trying to destroy society.

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- with mortal pangs The mimes become its food, And the angels sob at vermin fangs In human gore imbued.

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You know to me all women are divided into two classes...at least no...truer to say: there are women and there are...I've never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter with the ringlets are vermin to my mind, and all fallen women are the same."

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This of all virtues, and dignities of the mind, is the greatest; being the character of the Deity: and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing; no better than a kind of vermin. Goodness answers to the theological virtue, charity, and admits no excess, but error.

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To this the porter replied, as well as he could for trepidation, that he had once before heard of this sea-beast; that it was a cruel demon, with bowels of sulphur and blood of fire, created by evil genii as the means of inflicting misery upon mankind; that the things upon its back were vermin, such as sometimes infest cats and dogs, only a little larger and more savage; and that these vermin had their uses, however evil -- for, through the torture they caused the beast by their nibbling and stingings, it was goaded into that degree of wrath which was requisite to make it roar and commit ill, and so fulfil the vengeful and malicious designs of the wicked genii.

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And for every beggar in America, Italy can show a hundred--and rags and vermin to match.

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I could see distinctly the limbs of these vermin with my naked eye, much better than those of a European louse through a microscope, and their snouts with which they rooted like swine.

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you--a savage--a slave--the basest thing in the world of vermin! Take care!

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When I was building my house in the Paumotus I had slept out for weeks on a harder bed than that, with nothing to shelter me but wild shrubs; and as for vermin, my tough skin should be proof against their malice.

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They feed and pamper the vermin who are eating away the foundations of the country, and, damn it all, when we put a clear case to them, when we show them men whom we know to be dangerous, they laugh at us and tell us that it isn't our department!

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Many of us have the flying dream, the pursuing-monster dream, color dreams, suffocation dreams, and the reptile and vermin dreams.

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He would have to bid farewell to his summer cleanliness, of course, for he would come out of the first night's lodging with his clothes alive with vermin. There was no place in the city where he could wash even his face, unless he went down to the lake front-- and there it would soon be all ice.

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The bites of the vermin grew less annoying though not less numerous.

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