Synonyms for stench
stɛntʃstench

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1. malodor, malodour, stench, stink, reek, fetor, foetor, mephitisnoun

   a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant

   Synonyms:
   foetor, fetor, malodour, genus Mephitis, malodor, stink, mephitis, reek

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1. • Smell

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1. stenchnoun

   Synonyms:
   stink, fetor, bad smell, offensive odor

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1. stenchnoun

   Synonyms:
   fetor, stink

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1. List of paraphrases for "stench":

   stink, pestilence, smell, odour, stag, scent

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How to use stench in a sentence?

1. Imperial Beach:

   The stench was crazy, just terrible, we’re just going into our round-robin of endless openings and closures because of the residual sewage in the river.

2. Jesse Watters:

   It has a stench wafting around from it.

3. Mohammad Rafiq:

   The air is better here. There is no stench. I would have been happier if we lived here.

4. Jason Conn:

   You deal with it all day. You’re out baiting, trying your best to manage the situation, then come home and just the stench of dead mice, they’re in the roof cavity of your house. If your house is not well sealed, they’re in bed with you. People are getting bitten in bed.

5. Thomas Merton:

   I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them -- the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.