Word Meanings - STINK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor. (more info) OHG. stinchan, G. & D. stinken to stink; of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. stökkva to leap, to spring, Goth. stigqan to push, strike, or

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STINK)

• Effluvium
• Exhalation
• emanation
• malaria
• miasma
• stink

Related words: (words related to STINK)

• STINKWEED
  Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura.
• EXHALATION
  1. The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation. 2. That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying
• STINKARD
  The teledu of the East Indies. It emits a disagreeable odor. (more info) 1. A mean, stinking, paltry fellow. B. Jonson.
• STINKPOT
  The musk turtle, or musk tortoise. See under Musk. (more info) 1. An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel. 2. A vessel in
• MIASMA
  Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.
• MIASMAL
  Containing miasma; miasmatic.
• STINKINGLY
  In a stinking manner; with an offensive smell.
• STINKHORN
  A kind of fungus of the genus Phallus, which emits a fetid odor.
• EMANATION
  1. The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin. South. Those profitable and excellent emanations from God. Jer. Taylor. 2. That which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source; efflux; an effluence; as, perfume
• MALARIAL; MALARIAN; MALARIOUS
  Of or pertaining, to or infected by, malaria. Malarial fever , a fever produced by malaria, and characterized by the occurrence of chills, fever, and sweating in distinct paroxysms, At intervals of definite and often uniform duration, in which these
• EFFLUVIUM
  Subtile or invisible emanation; exhalation perceived by the sense of smell; especially, noisome or noxious exhalation; as, the effluvium from diseased or putrefying bodies, or from ill drainage.
• MALARIA PARASITE
  Any of several minute protozoans of the genus Plasmodium (syn. Hæmatozoön) which in their adult condition live in the tissues of mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles and when transferred to the blood of man, by the bite of the mosquito, produce
• STINKBALL
  A composition of substances which in combustion emit a suffocating odor; -- used formerly in naval warfare.
• STINKING
  from Stink, v. Stinking badger , the teledu. -- Stinking cedar , the California nutmeg tree; also, a related tree of Florida .
• MALARIA
  A morbid condition produced by exhalations from decaying vegetable matter in contact with moisture, giving rise to fever and ague and many other symptoms characterized by their tendency to recur at definite and usually uniform intervals. (more
• MIASMATIC; MIASMATICAL
  Containing, or relating to, miasma; caused by miasma; as, miasmatic diseases.
• STINKER
  Any one of the several species of large antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odor, as the giant fulmar. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, stinks.
• STINKWOOD
  A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the Foetidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata.
• MIASMATIST
  One who has made a special study of miasma.
• STINK
  To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor. (more info) OHG. stinchan, G. & D. stinken to stink; of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. stökkva to leap, to spring, Goth. stigqan to push, strike, or
• TYPHOMALARIAL
  Pertaining to typhoid fever and malaria; as, typhomalarial fever, a form of fever having symptoms both of malarial and typhoid fever.