English-French translations for stench

• puanteur
  Il était déjà clair à Amsterdam que ces eaux de cale n'étaient pas normales, car une personne s'était évanouie et il y avait une puanteur inhabituelle et insoutenable. It was already clear in Amsterdam that its bilge water was not normal, because someone had collapsed and there was an unbearable and unusual stench.
• esthétique
• relent
  Nous sommes confrontés à un véritable débat d'experts nombrilistes, sans oublier tous les relents nationalistes. We are really looking at a debate among selfcentred experts, not to mention the stench from all the nationalists.

Definition of stench

• a strong foul smell, a stink
• A smell or odour, not necessarily bad
• To cause to emit a disagreeable odour; to cause to stink
• To stanch

Examples

• the stench of political corruption

Related words

• insistence
• existence
• consistency
• persistence
• consistence
• stencil
• subsistence
• coexistence
• inconsistency