stank

Plural: stanks

Verb

• be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance
• smell badly and offensively
• simple past of stink
• To stink; to smell bad.
• To cause to smell bad.
• To dam up; to block the flow of water or other liquid.
• To pack in tightly.
• To seal off an area of the mine in which a fire has started.
• To surround or guard.
• To trample.
• To stumble or lurch.
• To cause (the udders) to become blocked and inflamed from lack of milking.

Adj

• Foul-smelling, stinking, unclean.
• Weak; worn out.

Noun

• A pond or pool; a dam or sluice.
• A stink; a foul smell.
• A certain quality, especially to jazz music, which is often desirable and can be achieved by, among other things, crunchy harmonies, blue notes and groovy rhythm
• Water retained by an embankment; a pool of water.
• A dam or mound to stop water.

Examples

• The letters felt like they were in a stank, stagnant and unmoving.

Synonyms

reek, stink, stankiness

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