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empest

empest verb: to infect.

Verb

empest (third-person singular simple present empests, present participle empesting, simple past and past participle empested)

  1. To infect
    • 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.1923, Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay

Forms of empest

third-person singular presentempests
present participleempesting
past participleempested
pastempested

Origin of empest

From em- + pest.

Questions about empest

What does empest mean?
Empest means to infect.
What part of speech is empest?
Empest is a verb.
What is the past tense of empest?
The past tense of empest is empested.

Words near empest in the dictionary

  1. emperorship
  2. emperorships
  3. emperour
  4. emperours
  5. empery
  6. empest
  7. empested
  8. empests
  9. empetaled
  10. empetalled
  11. empetraceous

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