verminous
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- adjective
- /ˈvɜrmɪnəs/
- Offensive
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infestado de alimañas
- The abandoned house was filled with verminous pests that made it uninhabitable.
- verminous arteritis
Examples
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The farmer was horrified to find verminous rodents invading his barn and destroying the crops.
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After months of neglect, the garden became verminous and overrun with unwanted weeds.
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A rational man turns verminous.
Fiction book (1992) -
That verminous creature, the master of Prokaryon?
Fiction book (1998) -
A rational country declares some citizens verminous and kills them.
Fiction book (1992) -
Back to our squall and verminous abode.
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There is a big need for specific criteria in the diagnosis of verminous arteritis in horses.
Academic text (2015) -
Then we all sprang up and stripped to hunt the verminous brood.
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"But the coat was stolen off my back aboard ship on the false grounds that it was verminous, and the bosun kept my buttons though they brought him no luck.
Blog text (5) -
The L4s and L5s migrate through the arterial system and cause verminous arteritis with marked intima thickening infiltrated with inflammatory cells.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
Infested with worms or small pests that harm things
Antonyms
How Infested
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Verminous comes from the word vermin, which comes from an old Latin word vermis meaning 'worm', so imagine a place crawling with little pests. That's why verminous describes something full of pests or very disgusting.