Definitions for stench

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IPA: /stɛntʃ/

Stench is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 102 anagrams from letters in stench (cehnst).

Definitions for stench

noun

  1. an offensive smell or odor; stink.
  2. a foul quality.

Origin of stench

before 900; Middle English; Old English stenc odor (good or bad); akin to stink

Examples for stench

Fog, and drizzle, and smoke, and stench composed the atmosphere.

The dust, the smoke, and the stench of the powder were suffocating.

The stench of the backed-up toilets combines with the fumes of garbage fermenting in the midday sun.

The small family home is still intact but the stench of rotting flesh that comes from inside is overpowering.

They were being carried out and the stench of their rotting flesh and bloated guts made it hard to examine them closely.

In the darkness none of the others could tell where the stench came from.

And I don't like the stench of that kind of cop in my place.

stench of fat kitchens, of soft bubbling alleys, of gleaming refuse.

At the vesper hour, there came an eighth, the stench of which was horrible.

The stench of corruption is settling over world soccer like a poisonous fog, and players are paying the price.

Word Value for stench
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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