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 →

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

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 →
• 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

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

Trees and pragmatics

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