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  • 121slough — Synonyms and related words: abandon, baygall, bilge, bilgewater, bind, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, caries, carrion, case, cashier, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, chuck, chuckhole, clutch, complication, crunch, decay …

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  • 122spoilage — Synonyms and related words: biodegradability, biodegradation, breakup, caries, carrion, corrosion, corruption, decay, decomposition, degradability, degradation, dilapidation, disintegration, disorganization, dissolution, dry rot, foulness,… …

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  • 123stuffiness — Synonyms and related words: Quakerishness, THI, airlessness, antiquation, aridity, aridness, authoritarianism, barrenness, bigotry, blind side, blind spot, blinders, bloodlessness, callowness, cantankerousness, censoriousness, characterlessness,… …

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  • 124malodorousness — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Bad smell Nouns 1. malodorousness, malodor, fetor, fetidness, bad smell, funk, fust, smelliness, bad odor, stench, stink, foul odor, effluvium, rankness, goatishness, goatiness, mephitis, miasma, mustiness …

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  • 125smell — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. scent; stink; sniff, snuff, inhale; detect, nose out. See odor, malodorousness. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A pleasant smell] Syn. fragrance, odor, scent, perfume, exhalation, redolence, essence, aroma,… …

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  • 126sour — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. acid, tart, bitter; fermented, unpleasant; morose, testy, touchy. See sourness, irascibility, unsavoriness.Ant., sweet, good humored. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Sour in taste] Syn. acid, acidulated …

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  • 127rancid — adjective 1》 (of foods containing fat or oil) smelling or tasting unpleasant as a result of being stale. 2》 highly unpleasant; repugnant. Derivatives rancidity noun rancidly adverb rancidness noun Origin C17: from L. rancidus stinking …

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  • 128rankness — n. 1. Luxuriance, excess, extravagance. 2. Rancidness, rancidity, strong smell …

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