Crossword clues for stench
stench
- Beat chest when claiming third in ping-pong
- Dreadful pong
- Terrible smell
- Unpleasant smell emerging from street girl with cut
- Skunk's defense
- Landfill emanation
- Big stink
- Awful smell
- Sign of spoilage
- Dump emanation
- Hardly an enticing aroma
- Foul fetor
- Bad odor
- Sickening emanation
- Offensive smell
- Foul quality
- Wretched smell
- Sign of a clogged toilet, perhaps
- Sewer emission
- Sewage treatment plant output
- Scandal emanation, figuratively
- Rotten eggs produce one
- Offensive odour
- Cause for nose-holding
- Horrid smell
- Dumpster emanation
- It may make the nose wrinkle
- Fetor
- Miasma
- A distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant
- Bad smell
- Foul odor
- Mephitis
- Very unpleasant smell
- Embrocation finally rubbed into chest — awful stink
- Offensively unpleasant odour
- What's smelt? Southern fish
- Strong unpleasant smell
- Strong smell from small fish
- Smell first of some fish
- Small fish smell
- Scores going up to check smell
- Foul smell produced by small fish
- Foul smell
- Horrible smell
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stench \Stench\, v. t.
To stanch. [Obs.]
--Harvey.
Stench \Stench\, n. [AS. stenc a strong smell, fr. stincan. See Stink, v. i.]
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A smell; an odor. [Obs.]
Clouds of savory stench involve the sky.
--Dryden. -
An ill smell; an offensive odor; a stink.
--Cowper.Stench trap, a contrivance to prevent stench or foul air from rising from the openings of sewers, drains, etc.
Stench \Stench\, v. t. [AS. stencan to emit a smell, fr. stincan
to smell. See Stench, n.]
To cause to emit a disagreeable odor; to cause to stink.
[Obs.]
--Young.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English stenc "a smell, odor, scent, fragrance" (either pleasant or unpleasant), from Proto-Germanic *stankwiz (cognates: Old Saxon stanc, Old High German stanch, German stank). Related to stincan "emit a smell" (see stink (v.)) as drench is to drink. It tended toward "bad smell" in Old English (as a verb, only with this sense), and the notion of "evil smell" has predominated since c.1200.
Wiktionary
n. 1 a strong foul smell, a stink 2 (context figurative English) a foul quality 3 (context obsolete English) A smell or odour, not necessarily bad. vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To cause to emit a disagreeable odour; to cause to stink. 2 To stanch.
WordNet
Usage examples of "stench".
At times the Great North Road accompanied her, more suggestive of infinity than any railway, awakening, after a nap of a hundred years, to such life as is conferred by the stench of motor-cars, and to such culture as is implied by the advertisements of antibilious pills.
Incidentally, it got its name from the Greek bromos, which means stench.
And what could be more symbolic, nay, indicative of the Black Death than the excrementious stench of corpses rotting in the streets?
It was a grim fate which awaited them, the confinement and pain of the benches, the weight of the long oars, the shackles, the whip, the drum of the hortator, the stench, the black bread and onions of the ponderous galleys.
She had gone some way before the scent of wine, mixed with the bitter-sweet stench of stale cooking from the great abbey kitchens above, told her that she was nearing the section of the hypogeum reserved for the storage of wine.
Had Gromph not been trapped in the sphere, he knew his nostrils would have been assaulted by the rank, foul odor of the pseudoplane, the stench of the malformed creatures that called it home.
Dying embers still glowed in the hearth, awaiting another stirring to life at morningtide, while the stench of stale ale, peat smoke, and sweat seemed to hang close above their heads, held there by the low ceiling.
Buddhist, or because of the indelible memory of that stench on a Manchurian plain, Major Kikuchi never ate meat, which allowed him to be as mobile as Munk in Turkey.
True, he had not consciously expected Hempnell to manifest any physical stench of evil, any outward sign of a poisonous inward neurosis -- or whatever it was he was battling.
At that moment, the pearlescent glow flickered, and Riane almost gagged, for on a particularly strong updraft of air came the sickening stench of bitterroot.
Furtig tested the air for Ratton stench but was only a fraction relieved at its absence.
And if they were prisoners in a place where there was so strong a stench of Ratton, he could well guess who their captors were.
No Ratton stench, nothing but the acrid odor common to all these levels.
He could smell and taste the anger, frustration and complete bewilderment of the other survivors which hung like the stench of rotting flesh in the cold, grey air.
The air was heavy with the sickening stench of rotting food and rotting flesh.