Definitions for miasmas

miasmas mi·as·ma

Spelling: [mahy-az-muh, mee-]
IPA: /maɪˈæz mə, mi-/

Miasmas is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in miasmas (aaimmss).

Definitions for miasmas

noun

  1. noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere.
  2. a dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere.

Origin of miasmas

1655-65; New Latin Greek míasma stain, pollution, akin to miaínein to pollute, stain

Examples for miasmas

My windows look into the pool and draw all the miasma out of it.

The air of CGI is thick with the miasma of biz-school neologisms.

Otherwise we run the danger of suffocation from the miasma of vulgarity.

And there is no cramp in my heart, no miasma clinging to my senses.

But, nevertheless, I am not so overcome by the miasma but what I can tell you how truly I love you.

I had to when you accused me of being like our friend the miasma.

In the age of monarchy the king lived surrounded by a miasma of intrigue.

It was as if Black Dan had dissolved into a miasma, and floated off.

And I wonder if what we are looking at with the “fly by” of Minneapolis might not be a form of miasma—called boredom.

It has, it is true, absorbed thousands of elements of miasma and filthiness!

Word Value for miasmas
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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