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stench

[ stench ]

noun

  1. an offensive smell or odor; stink.
  2. a foul quality.


stench

/ stɛntʃ /

noun

  1. a strong and extremely offensive odour; stink


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Other Words From

  • stenchful adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of stench1

First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English stenc “odor (good or bad)”; akin to stink

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Word History and Origins

Origin of stench1

Old English stenc; related to Old Saxon, Old High German stank; see stink

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Synonym Study

See odor.

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Example Sentences

The stench of corruption is settling over world soccer like a poisonous fog, and players are paying the price.

In the darkness none of the others could tell where the stench came from.

Hot orange flames leap into the sky bringing with them the sickening, inescapable stench of death.

They were being carried out and the stench of their rotting flesh and bloated guts made it hard to examine them closely.

The small family home is still intact but the stench of rotting flesh that comes from inside is overpowering.

We elephants never fear anyone or hate anyone and that is why we exude no stench, but a tiger has to live by killing.

On our way home, I verified the law of the jungle, for Kari had really developed a slight stench.

Most of the party were now really ill from the foul stench in which they had lived so long.

And as Raf pushed down another aisle, paralleling his course, he was conscious of a sickly sweet, stomach-churning stench.

Just as the stench of the snake-devil's lair had betrayed its site, here disaster and death had an odor of its own.

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