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noun

an offensive smell or odor; stink.

a foul quality.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English stenc odor (good or bad); akin to stink

Related forms

stench·ful, adjective

Synonyms
See odor.

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The sickening stench of burned plastic permeated the air.

More corpses than the ground could accommodate resulted in the stench of decay and the constant risk of disease.

The stench of burning tyres hangs over streets where police and protesters have pelted each other with stones.

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The sickening stench of burned plastic permeated the air.

More corpses than the ground could accommodate resulted in the stench of decay and the constant risk of disease.

The stench of burning tyres hangs over streets where police and protesters have pelted each other with stones.

Visitors approaching the camp for the first time often retched from the stench.

Toward the end, gangrene could set in, rotting fingers and toes and driving away caregivers with the horrific stench.

Their stench has been compared to the scent of a thousand dead elephants rotting in the sun.

It lathers up great and will wash away the horrid stench from belly crawling through dungeons.

The sour stench of garbage and alcohol rose from the sidewalk in hot waves.

But stench from a waste-disposal plant was smothering their homes.

The stench coming from a waste water treatment plant was unpleasant.

For those of us who are not as genetically prosperous, the stench of our much-beloved pooch may be the next best thing.

The stench of ammonia wafts from the group bathroom across the foyer.

For decades, the stench of the nearby refineries never seemed to concern city leaders here.

The streets seem calm, and are now largely free of corpses and their stench.

The stench of the fermented fish is nothing short of revolting.

The poor kids in that room suffered with the stench for days, while the trickster and his friends snickered amongst them selves.

The stench worsens, and some people cough and leave the room.

The hole was not much bigger than his head, and the stench of rotting flesh was beginning to fill the hot air this morning.

On impact, it leaves a powerful stench on an individual that strongly offends anyone standing nearby.

They were herding yaks loaded down with bloody animal hides, which filled the whole place with a horrible stench.

Also, you need to re-evaluate your thought processesWake up and smell the stench of corruption.

Take a deep breath and savor the sweet stench of disappointment.

First, there is the stench from vegetables stored on the sidewalk.

There is the sweet, acrid stench of human decomposition.

The need for a treatment plant is obvious from the stench of sulfur, and worse.

The snarl and stench of the nerve-jangling traffic nearly drown out the joke.

Nixon, but that was tainted by the stench of defeat.

The stench was especially bad at night when they camped near their newly dug latrines.

The fetid water mingles with hot sticky air laden with the stench of sweaty fights.

Biologists wore gas masks against the stench of rotting bodies.

Imagine the stench of a refrigerator crammed with rotting carrots and lettuce.

They are thick with the stench of rotting fish, thrown ashore by the waves.

If it sits stagnant, it can develop a stench because it is prone to bacterial growth.

The smell of alcohol lingered in the air, although a familiar faint stench from the bathroom threatened to take over.

With piles of human faeces littering the ground and sewage running freely, the stench is ever-present.

From many miles away, you could smell the tarry stench.

The stench of rotting meat filling my nose my mouth.

The stench of death will be there by morning, if it isn't already.

We turn a corner and are greeted with the sweet scent of orange blossoms mixed with the stench of decay.

When the growth tide slows down, the stench will be all over the beach.

But war is also the stench of bloated cows and horses rotting in fields.

The dining room had that stench of fruit bat guano that you often get in old colonial buildings with a metal roof and a ceiling.

The stench from the communal toilets is always present.

Those who deal with stench tend to be low on the social ladder:.

Sure, you may always suffer some taint from the denial, but it need not be the stench of death.

The whale meat carries a stench that makes it inedible.

But their ability to discriminate tones resembling those linked to a foul stench worsened-an effect that persisted one day later.

To them, the experience of slicing up a human body while gagging on the stench of formaldehyde and decay is a right of.

Now there may be a new way to get rid of the lampreys-with the stench of death.

Thoreau expressed no sense of kinship with the whales, only a revulsion at the stench.

The stench of uncollected rubbish wafts through the air.

Last night, neighbors said they had noticed a stench emanating from the building but had thought it was a dead cat or mouse.

But as the rotten-egg stench increased, paradise was about to be lost.

Graham was evicted because of a stench coming from his apartment.

Up close, the din and stench and heat is almost overwhelming.

Steam pours from the ground, blanketing us, and there's a strong stench of sulfur in the air.

She sent out vintage-looking men's jackets missing only the stench of mothballs.

Vongerichten's capacity for taking pains, the stench could well be part of his plan: an.

Yet the stench of corporate scandal from beyond its ivied walls seemed to be souring the mood.

The stench of this rotting flesh is something that will never leave my memory.

Dead patients have been left in their rooms for days until the stench became impossible to ignore.

Just station some skunks and follow the stench if anything happens.

Every national tongue, if proposed as a lingua franca, has the faint stench of imperialism.

Neighbors and a mail carrier said the stench coming from the.

Piglets that are still not weaned will have a much stringer uric stench.

But there's a potential downside-the birds' stench may serve other purposes.

Bodies of villagers shot or stabbed to death lined its lanes, and the stench of people.

Decomposition breaks down dangerous pathogens and reduces the stench.

The stench of rotting flesh and human waste was overpowering.

On another, she was crammed with her family in a toilet stall so filthy the stench saved her:.

The stench of burning gasoline and rowdy shouts filled the prairie night air.

Occasionally, an overpowering stench from open bladders and stomachs fills the air.

Apparel makers have found a new way to stop the stench in its tracks, by embedding antimicrobial agents into fabrics.

Charcoal smoke, flies and sewage stench mix with cooking smells as vendors sell beans by the scoop to waiting patients.

The stench of paint combined with weeks-old food is choking.

Most workers wear masks against the sour stench that is growing more pungent in the summer heat.

The stench of decay choked anyone who came within a mile of.

There are also widespread complaints about the stench from the large farms.

Antibiotics can reduce the stench but can be taken only intermittently.

The stench of sulfur bears within it poverty and privation.

German concentration camps gave forth the stench of slaughter.

Former inmates recalled the stench of the crematoria, the beatings and the forced labor.

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World English Dictionary

stench (stɛntʃ)

—n
	a strong and extremely offensive odour; stink

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

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Word Origin & History

stench

O.E. stenc "a smell" (either pleasant or unpleasant), from P.Gmc. *stankwiz (cf. O.S. stanc, O.H.G. stanch, Ger. stank). Related to stincan "emit a smell" (see stink) as drench is to drink. The notion of "evil smell" predominated from c.1200.

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