stench
IPA: stˈɛntʃ
noun
- a strong foul smell; a stink.
- (figurative) A foul quality.
- (obsolete) A smell or odour, not necessarily bad.
verb
- (obsolete) To cause to emit a disagreeable odour; to cause to stink.
- To stanch.
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Examples of "stench" in Sentences
- Do I detect the stench
- A stench of decay rose from the pit.
- The stench of hypocrisy is overwhelming.
- The stench of rotten flesh fills the air.
- His acolytes carry the stench of corruption.
- Thousands are crowded together in pestilential stench.
- One can smell the the stench of political indoctrination.
- The chancellor agreed that the stenches were unacceptable.
- Ariosto is knocked out by the stench and then killed by the Beast.
- The stench of the city's waste can be smelled far beyond its walls.
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