PESTIFEROUS
\pɛstˈɪfəɹəs], \pɛstˈɪfəɹəs], \p_ɛ_s_t_ˈɪ_f_ə_ɹ_ə_s]\
Definitions of PESTIFEROUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen
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tending to corrupt or pervert
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likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguey fevers"
By Princeton University
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contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen
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tending to corrupt or pervert
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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tending to corrupt or pervert
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Bearing or bringing pestilence, moral or physical; malignant; destructive.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies.
By Oddity Software
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Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies.
By Noah Webster.
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Pestiferously.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Pestiferously.
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Bearing pestilence: pestilent.
By Daniel Lyons
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Pestilential, conveying the plague or any infectious disease.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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Carrying pestilence; pestilent.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Pestilential; noxious to health, peace, morals, &c.; mischievous.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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