Meanings
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of empest
'Does it occur to you,' he went on, 'that at this moment we are walking through the midst of seven million distinct and separate individuals, each with distinct and separate lives and all completely indifferent to our existence?... Millions of them are now sleeping in an empested atmosphere...."
1923, Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay
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