Stank Definition

staŋk
verb

Stink.

Webster's New World

Simple past tense of stink.

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(obsolete, UK, dialect) To sigh.

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adjective

(African American Vernacular, slang, derogatory) Foul-smelling, stinking, unclean.

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(obsolete) Weak; worn out.

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noun

(UK, dialect) Water retained by an embankment; a pool of water.

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(UK, dialect) A dam or mound to stop water.

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Origin of Stank

  • Old French estanc, (French étang), from Latin stagnum (“a pool"). Compare stagnant, stagnate.

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  • Old French estanc, or Italian stanco. See stanch (adjective).

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  • Compare Swedish word, meaning "to pant".

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Stank Sentence Examples

  • The man in the executioner uniform dumped her onto a familiar surgical table in a room that stank of blood.

  • The ceiling was still peeling, the walls were still greasy and it still stank of urine.

  • Their perpetual meddling in politics, and even in speculation and finance, stank in the nostrils of every government in Europe; while their high-handedness and corporate greed in the matter of ecclesiastical privileges and patronage alienated the clergy.

  • Sometimes getting a solid chuck that resembles a broken sunflower seed that stank worse than Rex the dog's breath on a hot and humid day in Maywood, Illinois in the month of July.

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Words Starting With

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