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apestar

to stink

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apestar

1. (to smell bad)

a. to stink

Tus medias y zapatillas apestan. Lávalas, por favor.Your socks and your sneakers stink. Please wash them.

b. to reek

Abre las ventanas. El cuarto apesta a humedad.Open the windows. The room reeks of mustiness.

2. (to make smell bad)

a. to stink out

¡Tu pescado me está apestando toda la comida en el refrigerador!Your fish is stinking out all my food in the fridge!

3. (to transmit the plague)

a. to infect with the plague

Sáquenlo de aquí o apestará a los demás pacientes.Take him away or he'll infect the other patients with the plague.

apestarse

4. (botany)

a. to be blighted

Las plantas se apestaron y murieron.The plants became blighted and died.

5. (to contract the plague)

a. to catch the plague

Los cadáveres de las personas que se habían apestado eran incinerados.The corpses of the people who caught the plague were burned.

6. (to contract a disease)

a. to catch

Mi hija se apestó en la escuela cuando empezó el invierno.My daughter caught a cold in school when winter began.

7. (to be unsuccessful)

a. to fall through

El plan de fuga de los prisioneros se apestó y fueron capturados.The prisoners' escape plan fell through and they were captured.

apestar

1. (general)

a. to stink

huele que apestait stinks to high heaven

2. (hacer que huela mal)

a. to stink out

3. (contagiar la peste)

a. to infect with the plague

apestar

transitive verb

1 (Med) to infect with the plague; (with the plague)

2 (con olor) to stink out

3 (corromper) to corrupt; spoil; vitiate (formal); (molestar) to plague; harass; (repugnar) to sicken; nauseate

intransitive verb

to stink; reek;a of;

pronominal verb

apestarse

1 (Med) (con la peste) to catch the plague; (And) (S. Cone) (resfriarse) to catch a cold

2 (Botánica) to be blighted

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Verb Conjugations for apestar

Present Participle: apestando

Past Participle: apestado

Indicative

	Present	Preterite	Imperfect	Conditional	Future
yo	apesto	apesté	apestaba	apestaría	apestaré
tú	apestas	apestaste	apestabas	apestarías	apestarás
él/ella/Ud.	apesta	apestó	apestaba	apestaría	apestará
nosotros	apestamos	apestamos	apestábamos	apestaríamos	apestaremos
vosotros	apestáis	apestasteis	apestabais	apestaríais	apestaréis
ellos/ellas/Uds.	apestan	apestaron	apestaban	apestarían	apestarán

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