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
- : 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.
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