apestar

to stink

apestar(ah-pehs-tahrr)

intransitive verb

1. (to smell bad)

a. to stink

Lava tus medias. Apestan.

Wash your socks. They stink.

b. to reek

Abre las ventanas. El cuarto apesta a humedad.

Open the windows. The room reeks of mustiness.

transitive verb

2. (to make smell bad)

a. to stink up

Estás apestando la casa con el vaporizador.

You're stinking up the house with your vape.

b. to stink out (United Kingdom)

¡Tu pescado me está apestando el refrigerador!

Your fish is stinking out 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

pronominal verb

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)

(South America)

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.

(colloquial)

(to be unsuccessful)

(Mexico)

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

intransitive verb

1. (general)

a. to stink

huele que apestait stinks to high heaven

transitive verb

2. (hacer que huela mal)

a. to stink out

3. (contagiar la peste)

a. to infect with the plague

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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