stench

Pronunciation: /stɛnt͡ʃ/

The English word “stench” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

a strong foul smell; a stink.
A foul quality.
A smell or odour, not necessarily bad.

verb

To cause to emit a disagreeable odour; to cause to stink.
To stanch.

Etymology

From Middle English stench, from Old English stenċ (“stench, odor, fragrance”), from Proto-Germanic *stankwiz (“smell, fragrance, odor”), from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ- (“to push, thrust”). Cognate with Dutch stank (“stench, odor”), German Stank, Gestank (“stench, odor, smell”), Danish stank (“stench”), Swedish stank (“stench”), Icelandic stækja (“stench”).

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