Modifies a noun

• fume: They are forced to inhale noxious fumes or burning plastics.

• stimulus: Noxious stimulus A noxious stimulus is one which is damaging to normal tissues.

• weed: We have a 3 year contract with Devon County Council to control noxious weeds along some of the main roads in the county.

• substance: However, with an ever-increasing death toll from the effects of the noxious substance, observers have started to question the tactics used.

• odor: And because there was no escape he couldn't resist making a few noxious odors.

• stimulation: Noxious stimulation is used by the animal to make it aware of stimuli of an intensity that could or actually do damage body tissues.

Modifying Another Word

• particularly: But the bans begun in the 1970s strike many Third Worlders as a particularly noxious example of Western paternalism.

• so: Meantime, so noxious and deadly were the vapors that rose from the ground, that whenever it was opened nausea and sickness followed.

• very: Sprouts are notoriously difficult to grow organically in conventional farming they are perpetually sprayed from all sides and must be very noxious.

• potentially: So it can act as an area that produces a warning mechanism for potentially noxious stimuli.

• fairly: Well, whatever his literary merits, he struck me as a fairly noxious specimen.

• much: Ozone is a gas that prevents much noxious UV radiation from reaching the Earth's surface.

Used with adjective complement

• become: A nociceptor is a receptor which is preferentially sensitive to noxious stimulus or a noxious stimulus that would become noxious if prolonged.

• prevent: Ozone is a gas that prevents much noxious UV radiation from reaching the Earth's surface.