Usually means: Unpleasant, strong, offensive smell; reek.
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  1. stench: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stench: Merriam-Webster
  3. stench: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stench: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stench: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stench: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stench, stench: Wordnik
  8. stench: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. stench: Wiktionary
  10. stench: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stench: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stench: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stench: Dictionary.com
  14. stench: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. stench: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Stench: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Stench: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. stench: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. stench: Rhymezone
  20. stench: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. stench: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. stench: FreeDictionary.org
  23. stench: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. stench: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. stench: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stench: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stench: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (stench)

▸ noun:  a strong foul smell; a stink.
▸ noun:  (figurative) A foul quality.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A smell or odour, not necessarily bad.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To cause to emit a disagreeable odour; to cause to stink.
▸ verb:  To stanch.

Similar:
reek, fetor, stink, malodor, malodour, foetor, pungency, stink line, pong, honk, more...

Opposite:
fragrance, aroma, scent, bouquet

Types:
skunk, garlic, rotten eggs, stale beer, body odor, fart, more...

Phrases:
stench bombs, stench bomb, stench trap, stench traps, stench trench, more...

Adjectives:
foul, horrible, terrible, acrid, intolerable, sickening, awful, overpowering, nauseating, unbearable, sweet

Colors:
    olive,     mustard,     brown,     gray,     murky green, more...


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Similar:
reek, fetor, stink, malodor, malodour, foetor, pungency, stink line, pong, honk, more...

Opposite:
fragrance, aroma, scent, bouquet

Types:
skunk, garlic, rotten eggs, stale beer, body odor, fart, more...

Phrases:
stench bombs, stench bomb, stench trap, stench traps, stench trench, Pungent Stench, Stench and Stenchibility, The Stench of Redemption, react to a horrific stench, nauseating stench, more...

Adjectives:
foul, horrible, terrible, acrid, intolerable, sickening, awful, overpowering, nauseating, unbearable, sweet

Colors:
    olive,     mustard,     brown,     gray,     murky green, more...



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