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empest

verb

Etymology

From em- + pest.

  1. derived from pestis
  2. borrowed from peste — “pestilence”
  3. prefixed as empest — “em + pest”

Definitions

  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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for empest. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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