Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A strong, foul odor; a stink.
- n. A foul quality: the stench of corrupt government.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An ill smell; an offensive odor.
- n. Synonyms Stink, etc. See smell.
- To cause to emit a stench; cause to stink.
- An obsolete variant of stanch.
Wiktionary
- n. a strong foul smell, a stink
- n. metaphorically, a foul quality
- v. obsolete To cause to emit a disagreeable odour; to cause to stink.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To stanch.
- n. obsolete A smell; an odor.
- n. An ill smell; an offensive odor; a stink.
- v. obsolete To cause to emit a disagreeable odor; to cause to stink.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant
Etymologies
- Old English stenċ (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English stenc, odor. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Adding to the stench is the fact that the Oriental-meets-Glam-Rock fashions (designed by Ross herself!) are hideous creations that must have taken the applauding extras all their esophageal muscle control not to vomit over.”
“My clothes were wet with sweat and I pinched my nose to ward off the stench from the dead seal.”
“Also, on days when the tides and wind are just right, the stench is overpowering.”
“He was referring to the stench of marijuana we'd used up, or else the rat cage.”
“As for the puddle of life, the stench is offensive to you?”
“The stench from the backed up toilet was the cause of her abrupt exit, so this was quite a surprise.”
“The t-shirt did put me in a quandary at first, having sworn to wear my Fagsmoke t-shirt until it was a biohazard, but ultimately I decided that oath was probably best suspended while I was living under someone else's roof cause ... yanno ... stench is not a good repayment for hospitality.”
Adventures of a Couch-Hopping Scribbler Part 3: Hail, Helsinki!
“The world itself has a certain stench for the very fact your putrid essence is existing in it.”
“The moral preening by those who have volunteered to take up this cause brings a certain stench into the room.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Benjamin Wittes Comments on His AQ7 Letter at The New Republic
“Yet he returns to the ghetto to be angry; there, you are always close to the noise and clatter, always steeped in stench; there, the milk is sour and the honey is bitter, he says.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stench’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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LIT - Ulysses - key words and phrases
vanish, number one, archangel, commodious, dominie, rubble, glisten, morose, spindle, ventilation, Blessed, christian and 503 more...
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macabre
words associated with the macabre & horror.
( open list, randomness )
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Stink Different™
What-the-smell is that?
hircine, jumentous, hyena butter, cadaverine, new car smell, teen spirit, parosmia, hircismus, ylang-ylang, burnt hair, hydrogen sulfide, gay bomb and 115 more...
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everything
everythin?
a, i, aardvark, abdominals, any, anti-, ash, actuall, actually, add, abs, ass and 43 more...
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I do not like them, Sam I Am
Words that, for various reasons, I wish we could do without.
copacetic, gamut, horehound, lewd, membrane, metrics, mucous, mucus, negligee, nostril, odious, odor and 143 more...
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Words I have to learn
exasperate, felony, weld, fraud, worksheet, ransom, rehearse, preliminary, offshore, parole, infamous, sieve and 436 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Fun Words
Words that have funny meanings or are just fun to say.
kumquat, chimichanga, sarsparilla, rutabaga, rumpus, flummox, encrusted, prestidigitation, pomegranate, preposterous, dentiloquist, sepulchre and 323 more...
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conceptwriter's Words
sloth, jackass, dickhead, technostalgic, futuristic, enigma, impact, addict, nasty, premium, extraordinaire, yearning and 262 more...
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Reading Random
Got unknown words randomly
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favorite words
ennui, bonhomie, eschew, liaison, serendipity, lovely, dusk, kitten, epitome, sexy, beloved, darling and 396 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2014 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for stench.
bilby
a pit of fear,
a stench,
hands unreasonable
never to touch.
- Robert Creeley, 'A Form of Women'. Aug 31, 2009
chained_bear "Great God. The Stenche." Oct 7, 2008
yarb He is here tonight,
sixty one years old,
at this moment crouched
in the piss-stenched bogs
weeping, and weeping.
- Peter Reading, 5x5x5x5x5, 1983 Jul 4, 2008