appestare

Meaning

  1. (literally, transitive) to infect with the plague
  2. (transitive) to infect (in general)
  3. (figuratively, transitive) to pollute, to foul (of a stench)
  4. (figuratively, transitive) to corrupt, to spoil morally, to plague

Hyphenated as
ap‧pe‧stà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ap.pesˈta.re/
Etymology

From a- + peste + -are.

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