MIASMA


Meaning of MIASMA in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

An acrid miasma came from the sewage plant.

You feel the devastation of the war like a miasma over the battlefield.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A lurid miasma dazed his vision.

Acrid miasmas coiled from ventilation ducts and sewage flooded avenues.

But here the clouds converge and mist falls and general miasma overtakes the public brain.

I went to wash up as the table edge trembled to a familiar sick-to-the-gut miasma of nothingness.

Suspicion rose like a miasma from which it was impossible ever to take a breath.

The two of them now resembled a superstitious swamp devil, humming, hovering, and plowing through the miasma .

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