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Synonyms for fetid

Grammar : Adj
Spell : fet-id, fee-tid
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɛt ɪd, ˈfi tɪd

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Définition of fetid

Origin :
  • early 15c., from Latin fetidus (commonly, but incorrectly, foetidus) "stinking," from fetere "have a bad smell, stink." Perhaps connected with fimus "dung," or with fumus "smoke."
  • adj foul, rancid
Example sentences :
  • A blast of fetid, stinking air struck his face, and he choked.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 » by Various
  • It has a discharge from the eyes, and a fetid, sanious discharge from the nose.
  • Extract from : « Cattle and Their Diseases » by Robert Jennings
  • What of the babes who cry in fetid cellars for the light and are denied it?
  • Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1915 » by Various
  • For all the vaunted mechanisms of our time, the air here was heavy and fetid.
  • Extract from : « Wandl the Invader » by Raymond King Cummings
  • The fetid stench of an English prison ship could not abate his love of liberty and country.
  • Extract from : « Reminiscences of the Military Life and Sufferings of Col. Timothy Bigelow, Commander of the Fifteenth Regiment of the Massachusetts Line in the Continental Army, during the War of the Revolution » by Charles Hersey
  • He was as devoid of it as the fetid slime one treads underfoot in nightmares.
  • Extract from : « The Mutiny of the Elsinore » by Jack London
  • When he came to his senses again he found himself in the fetid hold of a ship.
  • Extract from : « Wood Rangers » by Mayne Reid
  • A smell of decay—of death—and yet somehow of rank and fetid life.
  • Extract from : « The Raid on the Termites » by Paul Ernst
  • With the moon-suit removed, he realized the atmosphere was fetid and stifling.
  • Extract from : « The Copper-Clad World » by Harl Vincent
  • The exhaled breath has a peculiarly sickening and fetid odor.
  • Extract from : « Fasting Girls » by William Alexander Hammond

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