Definition of "stench"

stench

/stɛnt͡ʃ/

noun
plural stenches
1. a strong foul smell; a stink.
2. (figurative) A foul quality.
3. (obsolete) A smell or odour, not necessarily bad.
  Quotations
  Black bulls, and bearded goats on altars lie; / And clouds of ſav'ry ſtench involve the ſky.
  a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The First Book of Homer’s Ilias”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, page 432
verb
third-person singular simple present stenches, present participle stenching, simple past and past participle stenched
1. (obsolete) To cause to emit a disagreeable odour; to cause to stink.
  Quotations
  Dead bards stench every coast
  1729, Edward Young, Imperium Pelagi
2. To stanch.