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rancid

[ran-sid]

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adjective

having a rank, unpleasant, stale smell or taste, as through decomposition, especially of fats or oils: rancid butter.

(of an odor or taste) rank, unpleasant, and stale: a rancid smell.

offensive or nasty; disagreeable.

Origin:
1640–50; < Latin rancidus rank, stinking, equivalent to ranc(ēre) to be rotten + -idus -id⁴

Related forms

ran·cid·ly, adverb

ran·cid·ness, ran·cid·i·ty, noun

un·ran·cid, adjective

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The purpose of refining vegetable oil is to remove unwanted gums that make the oils rancid.

Reality has the potential to strike anyone, even if they eat cake instead of rancid bread.

The entire body is rubbed with a cream, which consists of rancid butterfat and ochre powder.

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The purpose of refining vegetable oil is to remove unwanted gums that make the oils rancid.

Reality has the potential to strike anyone, even if they eat cake instead of rancid bread.

The entire body is rubbed with a cream, which consists of rancid butterfat and ochre powder.

Rancid means unpleasant odor due to spoilage of fatty foods.

They men had to eat rancid meat and became covered in boils.

Enzyme breakdown is smelly-a lipase working on grease can be particularly rancid.

Raw nuts also turn rancid more quickly than roasted nuts.

Milk products and oils go rancid in the compost pile and may draw pests.

Be sure to clean that container before refilling each time, so you won't end up adding good oil to rancid remainders.

In everyday life, oxidative stress describes what happens when iron rusts and butter turns rancid.

Good to know is nuts go rancid if not eaten within a week, so should be kept refrigerated.

Some foods go rancid rather than breaking down into rich garden soil.

Coffee oil residue produces that familiar rancid tang, so rinse the machine thoroughly with hot water after each use.

Fast-food restaurants, darkened and reeking of rancid meat.

It's so simple and its flavors are so pure that unless you buy rancid chickpea flour you will get it right the first try.

One tinkle of the temple bell, one whiff of incense, or one sip of rancid yak-butter tea.

Almost from the beginning, the film's sugary and rancid strains work against each other.

Highway bills are a notorious source of rancid pork.

He put his volunteers in a brain scanner and wafted disgusting odours such as rancid butter and rotten eggs into their nostrils.

Cage squeezes every last rancid drop of self-congratulatory ferocity out of his character's glad-handing rampage.

Thirty feet downstream a young girl is filling up a plastic bottle in the rancid water.

The bullpens are gone, leaving the rancid memory of last season's.

He won because the dreaded media brought all this sausage making into the open where it was shown to be a piece of rancid meat.

Phenols also have antioxidant properties and so help to protect the oil from going rancid.

But lets not forget that in the choice between rancid fish or putrefied lamb, neither is in any way palatable.

When the water was finally gone, every tool, machine and surface was bathed in a toxic mix of used motor oil and rancid mud.

It all seems vaguely familiar, from a dozen other exposes of the rancid offstage traumas of famous performers.

There was a strong smell of coffee grounds, a stink of rancid meat.

Avoid bloody cuts: blood will turn rancid before the meat does.

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World English Dictionary

rancid (ˈrænsɪd)

—*adj*
1.	(of butter, bacon, etc) having an unpleasant stale taste or smell as the result of decomposition
2.	(of a taste or smell) rank or sour; stale

[C17: from Latin rancidus rank, from rancēre to stink]

rancidity

—n

'rancidness

—n

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Word Origin & History

rancid

1646, from L. rancidus "rank, stinking, offensive," from rancere "be spoiled or rotten," of unknown origin.

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Medical Dictionary

rancid ran·cid (rān'sĭd)
adj.
Having the disagreeable odor or taste of decomposing oils or fats.

ran·cid'i·ty or ran'cid·ness n.

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