stench

Speech parts

1. stench - Noun

2. stench - Verb

Meaning

A smell; an odor.

An ill smell; an offensive odor; a stink.

To cause to emit a disagreeable odor; to cause to stink.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

stink pong fume smell breath funk scent odor aroma perfume fragrance bouquet emanation exhalation whiff
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Antonyms

aroma perfume fragrance ambrosia attar ambergris
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Hypernyms

smell odor odour olfactory perception olfactory sensation

Hyponyms

pong niff

Phrases with the word

stench of failure stench sphere stench ball stench projectile

Examples

Writers speak stench. Franz Kafka

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something. Robert Penn Warren

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin. Cyril Connolly

The king lives way up where the stench of the poor cannot reach him. Zambian Proverb

If the tail of the dog can save me, I don't care about its stench. Tunisian Proverb

A fox does not smell his own stench. American Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Stenberg stenbolone Stencel stench ball stench bomb stench of failure