Effluvium is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EFFLUVIUM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• disagreeable vapours
• an unpleasant or harmful odour or discharge
• unpleasant smell, as of decaying matter or gaseous waste
• a foul-smelling outflow or vapor (especially a gaseous waste)
ADJECTIVE:
• Subtile or invisible emanation; exhalation perceived by the sense of smell; especially, noisome or noxious exhalation; as, the effluvium from diseased or putrefying bodies, or from ill drainage.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an invisible emanation; an offensive exhalation or smell

Words related to EFFLUVIUM

effluvia17 effluvial18 effluviums21

Words that contain EFFLUVIUM

effluviums21

How to use EFFLUVIUM in a sentence

• The complexion of the finest ladies would show blotches, hairs, excrescences, and an overpowering effluvium would breathe from the pores of the skin.
• Through these gaps and our floor we get an unpleasantly strong stable effluvium, especially when the wind is strong.
• In the Public Library the combined influences of gas, heat and effluvium have wrought upon the leather until many covers were ready to drop to pieces at a touch.
• In the Athenaeum less gas has been used, and there is very little effluvium, but the mealy texture of the leather is general among the older tenants of the shelves.
• Somzee also raises the illuminating power of an ordinary flat-flame burner by causing an obscure effluvium to traverse the dark portion of the flame.
• Wherefore I deduce that the spirit of the inhabitants must pierce through and emanate from the senseless walls like an effluvium.
• That force, both in the air and in the water, is effluvium.
• Without effluvium a crowd of circumstances would remain enigmatic.
• It broke as much from the effect of effluvium as the violence of the wind.
• The electric effluvium exhausted, all becomes still, even the wave, which in ordinary storms often remains agitated for a long time.
• They exchanged in its firmament the deep effluvium which is in infinity attraction, and on earth the sexes.
• The walls were of stone, and the pallet on which he was laid was of straw, but the place was dry, and free from the noisome effluvium pervading the lower dungeon.
• With Seong Seob no longer allowing him to penetrate, her flesh seemed all the more sumptuous despite the effluvium of cheap perfume that exuded from it.
• The effluvium that arose polluted even the fresh air of the ocean, and burdened the breeze for miles to windward.
• Immediately there was a well-contested round between the breath of the flowers and the able and active effluvium from gout liniment.

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