MEANING
An unpleasant or offensive odor.
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- persistent malodor
- source of malodor
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A malodor came from the cupboard.
She could not identify the source of the malodor.
Ventilation reduced the room’s malodor.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular malodor; plural malodors; variant malodour. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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