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stink

DEFINITIONS OF: stink

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v smell badly and offensively

Synonyms:
reek
Type of:
smell
smell bad

v be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance

“This term paper stinks!”
Type of:
be
have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)

n a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant

Synonyms:
fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stench
Types:
niff, pong
an unpleasant smell
Type of:
odor, odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation, smell
the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form
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