as in stink
a strong unpleasant smell
we finally discovered the dead rat that was causing the stench in the basement
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Recent Examples of stench
In addition to beach closures, Navy SEALs and recruits train near the toxic runoff and children and some elderly residents on the U.S. side of the border have gotten sick because of the stench from the runoff, said Desmond.
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Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 3 Apr. 2025
The coop is empty and cavernous, the air still heavy with the stench of chicken waste.
—Suzy Khimm, NBC news, 21 Mar. 2025
The Miami Herald reported that detainees are sleeping on cement floors amid the stench of body odor and raw sewage.
—Clara-Sophia Daly, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2025
Even wrapped in paper, the stench of the aptly named stinkhorn mushrooms was overpowering, but the woman stifled a laugh upon overhearing two other passengers gripe about the swarm of flies around them.
—Alla Katsnelson, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
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The air around the massive crater in West Texas stinks of crude oil, and the Kelton family, which owns the ranch near the town of McCamey in Upton County, says they've been forced to stop using a separate water well amid fears it could be contaminated, according to local news reports.—
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Way worse players than him, would keep up a stink about their lack of playing time.—
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Conor Heffernan, who lectures on the history of sports and fitness at Ulster University, in Ireland, said the current vogue for biohacking, and its protein boosterism, reeks of snake oil.—
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Here, again, is the kind of scenario that reeks of Moscow disinformation.—
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“Stench.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stench. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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