stank

«stank» in Mova's judaism 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 →

2) Stank can also mean (informal) that something was very bad or poor: the film stank. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means smelled very bad. In Exodus it describes the land after the plague of frogs, when the dead frogs were piled up. Interpretation: The plague of frogs is one of the ten plagues that struck Egypt. The smell of the heaps reminded the Egyptians how powerless they were. In the primary 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

• And they gathered them together in heaps; and the land stank. (Torah EXO.8.14, JPS 1917) tree →
• The bin stank after a week in the sun. tree →
• His socks stank after the football match. tree →
• The room stank of fish. tree →
• The pond stank in the hot weather. tree →
• The rotten egg stank so badly we opened the windows. tree →
• That joke stank (informal). tree →
• The cheese stank, but it tasted great. tree →

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

• (8-10) And they gathered them together in heaps; and the land stank.
• The bin men came and went; for two weeks the full bin stank by the back door and the whole family smelled it.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «stank» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.