empest
English
Etymology
em- + pest
Verb
empest (third-person singular simple present empests, present participle empesting, simple past and past participle empested)
- To infect
- 1923, Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay:
- It is unfortunate that when two or three are gathered together in God's name... it is altogether deplorable that they should necessarily empest the air.
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