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Definition of "stank" [stank]

  • A past tense of stink. (verb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "stank" in a sentence
  • "They encouraged one another to positive hatred of the working man who had suddenly become wealthy; his name stank in their nostrils."
  • "Y’all know what a sceptic stank is full of, doncha?"
  • "I ended up walking around for more than ten years with the assumption that men in turbans stank, which is ridiculous, because my male neighbours both across the street and next door wore turbans, and they were perfectly decent, non-smelly people that I saw all the time."