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Stink [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A strong offensive smell.

Stink [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

preterit tense stand or stunk. To emit a strong offensive smell.

Stink [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A strong, offensive smell; a disgusting odor; a stench.

Stink [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.

Stink [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.

Stinkard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A mean paltry fellow.

Stinkard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A mean, stinking, paltry fellow.

2. The teledu of the East Indies. It emits a disagreeable odor.

Stinkball [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A composition of substances which in combustion emit a suffocating odor; -- used formerly in naval warfare.

Stinker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Something intended to offend by the smell.

Stinker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, stinks.

2. Any one of the several species of large antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odor, as the giant fulmar.

Stinkhorn [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A kind of fungus of the genus Phallus, which emits a fetid odor.

Stinking [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Emitting a strong offensive smell.

Stinking Webster's Dictionary 1913

a. & n. from Stink, v.

Stinking [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Stink

Stinkingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

With an offensive smell.

Stinkingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a stinking manner; with an offensive smell.

Stinkpot [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An artificial composition offensive to the smell.

Stinkpot [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel.

2. A vessel in which disinfectants are burned.

3. The musk turtle, or musk tortoise. See under Musk.

Stinkstone [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Swinestone, a variety of compact lucullite; a subspecies of limestone.

Stinkstone [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One of the varieties of calcite, barite, and feldspar, which emit a fetid odor on being struck; -- called also swinestone.

Stinkweed [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura.

Stinkwood [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the Foetidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata.

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12 KJV and 4 BSB verses contain “Stink”

Genesis 34:30

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

Exodus 7:18

And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.

The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink its water.’”

Exodus 16:24

And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.

So they set it aside until morning as Moses had commanded, and it did not smell or contain any maggots.

Job 31:40

Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.

Psalms 38:5

My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.

Ecclesiastes 10:1

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.

As dead flies bring a stench to the perfumer’s oil, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

Isaiah 3:24

And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.

Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.

Isaiah 19:6

And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.

Isaiah 34:3

Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.

Isaiah 50:2

Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.

Joel 2:20

But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.

The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Eastern Sea, and its rear guard into the Western Sea. And its stench will rise; its foul odor will ascend. For He has done great things.

Amos 4:10

I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

“I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

John 11:39

Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.

“Take away the stone,” Jesus said. “Lord, by now he stinks,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man. “It has already been four days.”

2 Maccabees 9:10

And the man, that thought a little afore he could reach to the stars of heaven, no man could endure to carry for his intolerable stink.