"I'm soaked with sweat." "Step back. You stink!"
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Stink
//stɪŋk//
Synonyms for "stink" (70 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (35)
Verb(4 words)
mephitismiasmanidornoxious stenchoffend the nostrilsoffensive odorpongreekingrotten smellshield beetlesmacksmell badsmell ofsmell to heavensmell upsmellerstenchstench of decaystink outstink up
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Adjective(1 words)
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More general
8 entriesSynonyms
7 entriesderived
40 entriesShowing 16 of 40 words.
has context
4 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
11 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
188 translations across 73 languages.
Ancient Greek
4 entries- βρῶμος noun (strong bad smell)
- δυσοσμία noun (strong bad smell)
- δυσωδία noun (strong bad smell)
- βρωμέω verb (have a strong bad smell)
Arabic
2 entries- نَتُنَ verb (have a strong bad smell)
- نَتِنَ verb (have a strong bad smell)
Aromanian
4 entries- putoari noun (strong bad smell)
- amput (roa-rup) verb (have a strong bad smell)
- mput (roa-rup) verb (have a strong bad smell)
- mputsãscu (roa-rup) verb (have a strong bad smell)
Basque
1 entries- kirats noun (strong bad smell)
Belarusian
1 entries- смярдзе́ць verb (have a strong bad smell)
Bulgarian
4 entries- воня noun (strong bad smell)
- химия noun (slang: chemistry)
- воня verb (have a strong bad smell)
- смърдя́ verb (have a strong bad smell)
Burmese
1 entries- နံ verb (have a strong bad smell)
Catalan
2 entries- pudor noun (strong bad smell)
- pudir verb (have a strong bad smell)
Chickasaw
2 entries- kosoma verb (have a strong bad smell)
- shoha verb (have a strong bad smell)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 發惡臭 /发恶臭 verb (have a strong bad smell)
- 發臭 /发臭 verb (have a strong bad smell)
- 發臭味 /发臭味 verb (have a strong bad smell)
Crimean Tatar
2 entries- sasıq noun (strong bad smell)
- sasımaq verb (have a strong bad smell)
Czech
4 entries- smrad noun (strong bad smell)
- páchnout verb (have a strong bad smell)
- smrdět verb (have a strong bad smell)
- zapáchat verb (have a strong bad smell)
Danish
1 entries- stinke verb (have a strong bad smell)
Dutch
3 entries- stank noun (strong bad smell)
- stinken verb (have a strong bad smell)
- stinken verb (give an impression of dishonesty or untruth)
Esperanto
2 entries- fetori verb (have a strong bad smell)
- malbonodori verb (have a strong bad smell)
Evenki
1 entries- ӈо̄ noun (strong bad smell)
Extremaduran
1 entries- cheral verb (have a strong bad smell)
Finnish
4 entries- haju noun (strong bad smell)
- löyhkä noun (strong bad smell)
- haista verb (have a strong bad smell)
- haista verb (informal: be greatly inferior)
French
4 entries- puanteur noun (strong bad smell)
- tapage noun (informal: complaint or objection)
- empester verb (have a strong bad smell)
- puer verb (have a strong bad smell)
Galician
4 entries- fedor noun (strong bad smell)
- tufo noun (strong bad smell)
- abafar verb (have a strong bad smell)
- alcatrear verb (have a strong bad smell)
Georgian
1 entries- ყარს verb (have a strong bad smell)
German
4 entries- Gestank noun (strong bad smell)
- müffeln verb (have a strong bad smell)
- riechen verb (have a strong bad smell)
- stinken verb (have a strong bad smell)
Greek
4 entries- μπόχα noun (strong bad smell)
- βρομάω verb (have a strong bad smell)
- βρομάω verb (give an impression of dishonesty or untruth)
- μυρίζω verb (have a strong bad smell)
Hawaiian
1 entries- hauna verb (have a strong bad smell)
Hebrew
1 entries- הִסְרִיחַ verb (have a strong bad smell)
Hindi
1 entries- गंधाना verb (have a strong bad smell)
Hungarian
4 entries- balhé noun (informal: complaint or objection)
- botrány noun (informal: complaint or objection)
- bűz noun (strong bad smell)
- patália noun (informal: complaint or objection)
Hunsrik
1 entries- stinke verb (have a strong bad smell)
Icelandic
1 entries- þefja verb (have a strong bad smell)
Ingrian
1 entries- lemissä haissa verb (have a strong bad smell)
Italian
4 entries- fetore noun (strong bad smell)
- protesta noun (informal: complaint or objection)
- puzza noun (strong bad smell)
- reclamo noun (informal: complaint or objection)
Japanese
4 entries- 悪臭 noun (strong bad smell)
- くだらない verb (informal: be greatly inferior)
- 悪臭を放つ verb (have a strong bad smell)
- 臭い verb (give an impression of dishonesty or untruth)
Kazakh
2 entries- сасық noun (strong bad smell)
- сасу verb (have a strong bad smell)
Khmer
1 entries- ស្អុយ verb (have a strong bad smell)
Korean
1 entries- 악취를 풍기다 verb (have a strong bad smell)
Lao
2 entries- ເຫມັນ verb (have a strong bad smell)
- ເໝັນ verb (have a strong bad smell)
Latin
3 entries- foetor noun (strong bad smell)
- paedor noun (strong bad smell)
- foeteō verb (have a strong bad smell)
Latvian
1 entries- smirdēt verb (have a strong bad smell)
Lithuanian
2 entries- smarvė noun (strong bad smell)
- smirdėti verb (have a strong bad smell)
Lushootseed
1 entries- ʔihəl verb (have a strong bad smell)
Macedonian
1 entries- смрди verb (have a strong bad smell)
Malay
1 entries- busuk verb (have a strong bad smell)
Malayalam
4 entries- ദുർഗന്ധം noun (strong bad smell)
- നാറ്റം noun (strong bad smell)
- ദുർഗന്ധം വമിക്കുക verb (have a strong bad smell)
- നാറുക verb (have a strong bad smell)
Māori
1 entries- hīrearea noun (strong bad smell)
Neapolitan
1 entries- fete verb (have a strong bad smell)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- stank noun (strong bad smell)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- stank noun (strong bad smell)
Occitan
1 entries- pudir verb (have a strong bad smell)
Ojibwe
2 entries- maazhimaagozi verb (have a strong bad smell)
- maazhimaagwad verb (have a strong bad smell)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Jestank noun (strong bad smell)
Polish
4 entries- odór noun (strong bad smell)
- smród noun (strong bad smell)
- capić verb (have a strong bad smell)
- cuchnąć verb (have a strong bad smell)
Portuguese
4 entries- fedor noun (strong bad smell)
- fetidez noun (strong bad smell)
- feder verb (have a strong bad smell)
- tresandar verb (have a strong bad smell)
Quechua
4 entries- asnai verb (have a strong bad smell)
- asnay verb (have a strong bad smell)
- asyai verb (have a strong bad smell)
- hunyay verb (have a strong bad smell)
Romanian
2 entries- putoare noun (strong bad smell)
- puți verb (have a strong bad smell)
Russian
4 entries- вонь noun (strong bad smell)
- воня́ть verb (have a strong bad smell)
- ду́рно па́хнуть verb (have a strong bad smell)
- смерде́ть verb (have a strong bad smell)
Sanskrit
1 entries- पूयति verb (have a strong bad smell)
Scots
1 entries- ming verb (have a strong bad smell)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- smrditi verb (have a strong bad smell)
- смрдити verb (have a strong bad smell)
Sicilian
2 entries- fetu noun (strong bad smell)
- fetiri verb (have a strong bad smell)
Slovak
2 entries- páchnuť verb (have a strong bad smell)
- smrdieť verb (have a strong bad smell)
Slovene
1 entries- smrdeti verb (have a strong bad smell)
Spanish
4 entries- apestar verb (have a strong bad smell)
- apestar verb (informal: be greatly inferior)
- atufar verb (have a strong bad smell)
- cantar verb (have a strong bad smell)
Sranan Tongo
1 entries- tingi verb (have a strong bad smell)
Swahili
1 entries- nuka verb (have a strong bad smell)
Swedish
4 entries- stank noun (strong bad smell)
- stinka verb (have a strong bad smell)
- stinka verb (give an impression of dishonesty or untruth)
- vara urusel verb (informal: be greatly inferior)
Telugu
2 entries- కంపు noun (strong bad smell)
- దుర్గంధము verb (have a strong bad smell)
Thai
1 entries- เหม็น verb (have a strong bad smell)
Ukrainian
1 entries- смерді́ти verb (have a strong bad smell)
Vietnamese
3 entries- bay mùi thối verb (have a strong bad smell)
- bốc mùi thối verb (have a strong bad smell)
- thối verb (have a strong bad smell)
Volapük
2 entries- lusmel noun (strong bad smell)
- lusmelön verb (have a strong bad smell)
Welsh
1 entries- drewi verb (have a strong bad smell)
White Hmong
1 entries- tsw phem verb (have a strong bad smell)
Yiddish
1 entries- שטינקען verb (have a strong bad smell)
Sample sentences
23 total sentences available.
He is raising a big stink over a minor glitch.
Source: tatoeba (290017)
A fox smells its own stink first.
Source: tatoeba (1044727)
The socks stink.
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