fetid

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fet·id /ˈfetɪd/ adjective formal COhaving a strong bad smell 恶臭的 SYN stinking the black fetid water of the lake 又黑又臭的湖水 the dog’s fetid breath 那条狗呼出的臭气

Examples from the Corpus

fetid• I went into the street where, after the fetid air of the synagogue, I breathed in the fresh air gratefully.• Water oozed out of the walls and as each night wore on, the heat distilled a fetid and poisonous atmosphere.• He could almost feel hot, fetid breath warming his skin.• It ventured forth only to kill cattle or flatten crops, poisoning the air with its fetid breath.• Sickness caused by overcrowding, and the damp, fetid conditions had appalled him.• A fetid light blazed from Old Saul's sockets.• There were no masses of poor crushed together in fetid slums, scrabbling for every crust.• The fetid smell of swamp seeped through the concrete.• the fetid streets of the slumOrigin fetid (1400-1500) Latin foetidus, from foetere “to smell bad”

fet·id adjectiveChineseSyllable

Corpus smell strong bad a having

fetid
fet‧id /ˈfetəd, ˈfetɪd/