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fetor
[ fee-ter ]
noun
- a strong, offensive smell; stench.
fetor
/ ˈfiːtə; -tɔː /
noun
- an offensive stale or putrid odour; stench
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fetor1
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Example Sentences
He was blinded by light and deafened by sound and his nostrils were filled with the nauseating fetor of jungle and decay.
Liquor gurgled down; the smell of whisky added its fetor to the stench of oil, bilge, sweat and blood.
In vain it was to rake for Ambergriese in the paunch of this Leviathan, insufferable fetor denying not inquiry.
Dalgard's less sensitive nostrils picked up a new scent, the not-to-be-missed fetor of damp underground ways where water stood.
Lemna minor where the crusts and the muco-purulent discharge are very abundant with fetor (in rhinitis atrophics).
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