empest
/ɪmˈpɛst/ /ɛmˈpɛst/(also impest) Now rare
verb
[with object] To infect with plague, pestilence, etc.
Origin
Early 17th century; earliest use found in William Fowler (d. 1612), writer and courtier. From French empester to corrupt (a person) morally, to infect (a person) with a contagious disease, e.g. plague or pestilence from em- + peste.
- A-OK
- A-okay
- Aona
- AONB
- AOR
- Aoraki/Mount Cook
- aorist
- aoristic
- a (or one) hell of a ——
- a (or one) hundred per cent
- a (or one's) bounden duty
- aorta
- a (or that) sinking feeling
- a (or the) deuce of a ——
- a (or the) grand old man of
- a (or the) picture of ——
- wrap party
- wrapped
- wrapper
- wrapper application
- wrapping
- wrapping paper
- wrap someone in cotton wool
- wrap someone up
- wrap something up