apestar
/apesˈtaɾ/ · B1 · verb
to stink
🦨 a + peste (plague) + -ar: to plague the air, hence to stink
Built on peste, the Spanish cousin of English pest and pestilence. Plagues were long blamed on foul air, so the verb for spreading plague also came to mean reeking. Sound hook: a-PEST-ar, a pest that stinks.