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stench

noun as in foul odor

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The work was often done in miserable weather, with stench and mud, and the soldiers lived in primitive housing, Budreau wrote.

He has cleared paths through rooms with horrible stenches and picked through mold, dead rodents and worse.

The stench might mask the scent that hornets use to mark hives for attack.

Yanna Casey, 25 of Atlanta, said the stench is particularly bad when she is around cleaning supplies.

Instead, there’s a stench that’s increasingly hard to ignore.

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The stench of corruption is settling over world soccer like a poisonous fog, and players are paying the price.

In the darkness none of the others could tell where the stench came from.

Hot orange flames leap into the sky bringing with them the sickening, inescapable stench of death.

They were being carried out and the stench of their rotting flesh and bloated guts made it hard to examine them closely.

The small family home is still intact but the stench of rotting flesh that comes from inside is overpowering.

We elephants never fear anyone or hate anyone and that is why we exude no stench, but a tiger has to live by killing.

On our way home, I verified the law of the jungle, for Kari had really developed a slight stench.

Most of the party were now really ill from the foul stench in which they had lived so long.

And as Raf pushed down another aisle, paralleling his course, he was conscious of a sickly sweet, stomach-churning stench.

Just as the stench of the snake-devil's lair had betrayed its site, here disaster and death had an odor of its own.

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On this page you'll find 22 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stench, such as: smell, stink, fetor, funk, malodor, and mephitis.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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