pestilent

英[\'pestɪlənt]

美[ˈpɛstələnt]

基本释义

I destroy all noisome and rank weeds , I keep down all pestilent vapours.

我摧毁了一切丛生的毒草,控制一切有害的烟雾.

辞典例句

Smallpox is a pestilent disease.

天花是一种致命的疾病.

互联网

Adjective

1. exceedingly harmful
2. likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease;
"a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift
"plaguey fevers"