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Definition:

(n.)Relating to small, vile animals, especially rodents. Rats, mice. Also of flies, lice, bedbugs and cockroaches. An objectionable person or group thereof.

Pronunciation:

VER - min

Also Known As:

pests, rats, mice, cockroaches

Examples:

As soon as the health inspector entered the kitchen, he saw telltale signs of vermin.

In a Quote

Why was Camden in such haste to take a visitor to his den? There was nothing but pickled vermin, and drawers full of blue-bottles and moths, with no carpet on the floor.
George Eliot, Middlemarch

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