Skip to main content
PlainSpell

apestar

Spanish, verb/apesˈtaɾ/

apestar is a Spanish verb meaning “to stink” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Desprender mal olor”.

What does apestar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to stink

  2. 2

    to nauseate

  3. 3

    to cause a plague, disease

  4. 4

    to corrupt, spoil

  5. 5

    to annoy

  6. 6

    colloquialto suck, to stink, to blow

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Desprender mal olor.

verb: 1. Comunicar, o trasladar la peste. 2. Retirar la aprobación de un grupo social.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of apestar

  • apesto first-person present singular
  • apesté first-person preterite singular
  • apestado participle past
  • apestando gerund
  • apestada feminine participle past
  • apestados masculine participle past
  • apestadas feminine participle past
  • apestas indicative informal present
  • apestás indicative informal present
  • apesta indicative present singular
  • apestamos first-person indicative plural
  • apestáis indicative plural present
  • apestan indicative plural present
  • apestaba first-person imperfect indicative
  • apestabas imperfect indicative second-person
  • apestábamos first-person imperfect indicative
  • apestabais imperfect indicative plural
  • apestaban imperfect indicative plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce apestar?

  • /apesˈtaɾ/
  • [a.pesˈt̪aɾ]
  • [apesˈt̪aɾ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to apestar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is apestar in Spanish?

apestar appears about once in every 6 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).