What's the difference between fetid and stench?

Fetid


Definition:

  • (a.) Having an offensive smell; stinking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Every time we have a negotiation, the bidding process (for the project) slows and postpones things.” Water quality has become a hot-button issue as the Olympics draw closer with little sign of progress in cleaning up the fetid bay, as well as the lagoon system in western Rio that hugs the sites of the Olympic park, the very heart of the games.
  • (2) Transtracheal aspiration is not deemed necessary if the patient is expectorating fetid sputum.
  • (3) He is now Rwanda's justice minister, who has had to contend with the daunting question of what to do with close to 150,000 accused genocidaire who a decade ago were packed into overcrowded, fetid prisons.
  • (4) Symptomatology perceived incorrectly as abnormal: a) In pregnancy: Frequent urination: 17 per cent, morning nausea in the 1st trimester: 9 per cent, emotional instability: 21 per cent, Braxton Hicks contractions: 41 per cent, and b) Postpartum period: Decreased quantity in lochia rubra: 9 per cent, non-fetid lochia alba: 43 per cent, calostrum: 20 per cent.
  • (5) In the fetid ecosystem that is our incubator of conservative columnists, he is the apex predator.
  • (6) Early diagnosis was rare, even after fetid otorrhea of long duration; occassionally they presented as acute mastoiditis.
  • (7) b) In puerperium: Increased quantity in lochia rubra: 17 per cent, fever: 22 per cent, fetid lochia: 28 per cent, and c) In breastfeeding: Breasts red and warm: 48 per cent, fever: 30 per cent, nipple fissures: 70 per cent.
  • (8) It was dramatic with high fever and multiple fetid stools in one patient, and mild, successfully treated within a few days, in the second.
  • (9) In this discussion, the case report of a fetid diabetic right foot infection is presented.
  • (10) Whatever people say about the US, it at least embraces the filth and fury of politics, and puts the whole malfunctioning and fetid business out there for all to see.
  • (11) And just as our great moments in cinema concern stammering monarchs, so the likes of Garrone choose to examine criminality, and now the fetid scourge of reality TV.
  • (12) Differential diagnosis of the omphalic stone includes the so called umbilical cholesteatoma, an accumulation of crumbling, fetid masses in the umbilicus, often times accompanied by seborrhea which may lead to abscess formation.
  • (13) Fetid vaginal discharge (60%) and premature rupture of the membranes (35%) were the main findings upon history taking.
  • (14) This provoked the appearance of a pyogenous process with a profuse, purulent and fetid secretion (Staphylococcus aureus) resistant to many antibiotics which was finally controlled with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole.
  • (15) The twelve other bacteremic patients had fetid diarrhea a few hours after admission.
  • (16) City hall, on a hill overlooking the city, is a devastated but functioning headquarters packed full of relief goods, water-logged office files, broken glass partitions and fetid toilets where journalists, aid workers, civil servants and homeless locals meander the halls aimlessly.
  • (17) Pseudomonas aeruginosa was the dominant causative organism in pulmonary infections of the aged while in presenile ones the organism was mainly Pseudomonas fetid.
  • (18) The water no longer bubbles out of the ground but sits low and fetid, a milky pond with concrete walls contaminated by faeces.
  • (19) Fetid diarrhea and failure to gain weight were consistent clinical signs.
  • (20) Trucks still rumble down the potholed road through the town but the last workers have long gone home, walking past the furled awnings of the market stalls, over the single footbridge, along the battered pavements, to the tenement apartments, the squalid huts, the tin-roofed homes by the fetid pond.

Stench


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To stanch.
  • (v. i.) A smell; an odor.
  • (v. i.) An ill smell; an offensive odor; a stink.
  • (n.) To cause to emit a disagreeable odor; to cause to stink.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I still have the stench of their debasement in my nostrils.
  • (2) Inside the carriage the temperature was stifling, the stench of unwashed bodies and stale urine overwhelming.
  • (3) It was therefore attempted to combat the hospital infections by all means with desodorizing procedures, thus trying primarily to suppress the stench by frequent whitewashing of the rooms, spraying of vinegar, by burning powder and even using precious incense.
  • (4) "Those are dead people in front of our house and the smell is awful," called out a woman from the balcony, her face shrouded in cloth to protect her from the stench.
  • (5) In addition, data were collected relating to work activity and exposure to the stenching agent added to the herbicide, atmospheric levels of which were measured with personal monitoring, on a daily basis.
  • (6) That’s good – but not when it fails, and is emitting the stench of a medieval cesspit.
  • (7) Adiós, Rajoy: Spaniards can’t stomach the stench of corruption in ruling party Read more On Tuesday the floor belonged to Sánchez.
  • (8) They are kept in overcrowded cells; they are denied toothbrushes, toothpaste, and soap; they are subjected to the constant stench of excrement and refuse in their congested cells [and] they are surrounded by walls smeared with mucus and blood,” said one passage of the lawsuit, which went on to name several more hardships.
  • (9) The stench of corruption and conflict of interest is so heavy around him, it’s inevitable that Congress will be forced to reckon with it.
  • (10) It's also amazing how long senior management at RBS took to fix the bank's Libor controls once the rotten stench emerged.
  • (11) More recently, the stunning beauty of the bay – backdrop for some of Rio’s most spectacular sights – has been at odds with an often appalling stench of human waste and other forms of pollution .
  • (12) Without working plumbing, the stench in the property had become intolerable.
  • (13) He also posted a status update about washing "the stench of public transport off me" once he had gotten his Porsche back from the workshop.
  • (14) Below him pipes of natural gas pump flames into the stack, lighting a fire that will burn day and night for 17 days to bake the bricks at 1080 degrees Celsius, sending the stench of sulphur into the air in billows of steam.
  • (15) Emily Butler, the town clerk in Trout River, Newfoundland said Tuesday the 26-meter (28.4-yard) blue whale is beached next to a community boardwalk and is emitting a powerful stench that is spreading through the town of 600 people.
  • (16) The problem with an open sewer is you cannot escape the stench.
  • (17) But no matter how hard they try, the stench of death is impossible to get rid of.
  • (18) Even so, the authors have decided not to hold an official launch in any of the crap 50, in case linguistic subtleties are lost on, say, Wolverhampton, where smells "permeate the town like the stench of a trapped animal slowly decaying in a drainpipe".
  • (19) He recalled the stench and listening to the screams of others echoing through their sordid dungeon.
  • (20) Now some of the younger men and officers are teasing me about the way I smell and the stench in my cell.” In its recent report on older people in prison, the justice committee recommended that older and disabled prisoners should no longer be held in establishments that cannot meet their basic needs, and nor should they be released back into the community without adequate care and support.