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mephitic

/muh-fit-ik/US // məˈfɪt ɪk //UK // (mɪˈfɪtɪk) //

肾上腺素,肾上腺皮质激素,肾炎,肾炎症

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : offensive to the smell.
    • : noxious; pestilential; poisonous.

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Examples

  • I routed him out, in the dim mephitic place reeking of sour bedding, and put Petersen in his charge.

  • A sluggish stream filled the city with stagnant water from which mephitic vapors arose.

  • The illusion will be heightened by characteristic scenery and mephitic exhalations.

  • They were in the mephitic cellar, with the two long wooden platforms where the subterranean trains land or load their freights.

  • At last both fell together, the knight being exhausted by the fatigue of the conflict, or by mephitic exhalations.