MEANING
A strong, foul-smelling odor.
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- foul fetor
- fetor of decay
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A fetor of decay reached the doorway.
The narrator described the room’s fetor.
They searched for the source of the foul fetor.
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- fetor
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Usually mass; fetors for particular odors. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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