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fetid

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fet·id  (ftd, ftd) also foe·tid (ftd)
adj.
Having an offensive odor.

[Middle English, from Latin ftidus, from ftre, to stink.]

fetid·ly adv.
fetid·ness n.

fetid, foetid [ˈfɛtɪd ˈfiː-]
adj
having a stale nauseating smell, as of decay
[from Latin fētidus, from fētēre to stink; related to fūmus smoke]
fetidly , foetidly adv
fetidness , foetidness n
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Adj.1.fetid - offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky"

fetid foetid
adjective stinking, rank, offensive, foul, corrupt, reeking, noxious, rancid, foul-smelling, malodorous, noisome, mephitic, olid the fetid stench of human waste
Translations
fetid [ˈfetɪd] ADJfétido

fetid [ˈfɛtɪd ˈfiːtɪd] adjfétide

fetid
adjübel riechend

fetid [ˈfɛtɪd] foetid [ˈfiːtɪd] adj (frm) → fetido/a

fetid
adj fetid [ˈfiːtid]
having a bad smell; stinking a fetid pool of water. stinkend, onwelriekend نَتِن، كَريه الرائِحَه، فاسِد зловонен páchnoucí ildelugtende; stinkende stinkend δύσοσμος fétido haisev متعفن löyhkäävä fétide מַסרִיחַ बदबूदार smrdljiv büdös bau busuk daunillur, stækur fetido 臭い 악취가 나는 dvokiantis smirdošs; smakojošs kohong stinkend stinkende, illeluktende cuchnący fétido fetid зловонный páchnuci smrdljiv smrdljiv stinkande ซึ่งมีกลิ่นเน่าเหม็น kok(uş)muş 發臭的 смердючий بدبودار hôi thối; hôi hám


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Yet for twenty miles and more, through fetid swamps and poisoned jungles, he had carried him over his shoulder, fighting fiercely for the lives of both of them, while there remained any chance whatever of escape.
A faint, fetid smell came from him, and a thread of green liquid oozed from his crushed head.
In some places the shores were completely covered with a stratum of dead salmon, exhausted in ascending the river, or destroyed at the falls; the fetid odor of which tainted the air.
 
 
 
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