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# stank

«stank» in Mova's school dictionary: **the past form of «stink»: it smelled very bad** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (past form of «stink»: stink, stinks, stank, stunk)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Stank is the past form of «stink»: it smelled very bad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stank/#m1)

2) Stank can also mean (informal) that something was very bad or poor: the film stank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stank/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and funny stories «stank» describes bins, socks, rotten eggs and drains; it makes the reader almost smell the scene. In informal talk it means something was terrible. Phrases: it stank of, stank to high heaven.

### examples

- The bin stank after a week in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stank/#x1)
- His socks stank after the football match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stank/#x2)
- The room stank of fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stank/#x3)
- The pond stank in the hot weather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stank/#x4)
- The rotten egg stank so badly we opened the windows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stank/#x5)
- That joke stank (informal). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stank/#x6)
- The cheese stank, but it tasted great. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stank/#x7)

### note

Forms: stink – stank – stunk (have stunk). Some people say «stunk» as the past too (it stunk), but «stank» is standard for the simple past. «Stank of» + the smell.

### In the corpora

- [The bin men came and went; for two weeks the full bin stank by the back door and the whole family smelled it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play/1/)
- [(8-10) And they gathered them together in heaps; and the land stank.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.216/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stank» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stank/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.