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| Main Entry: | miasma |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | effluvium |
| Synonyms: | fumes, gas, odor, pollution, reek, smell, smog, stench, stink, vapor, fetor, foul air, mephitis |
| Main Entry: | contagion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infection |
| Synonyms: | bane, contamination, corruption, illness, miasma, pestilence, plague, poison, pollution, taint, transmission, venom, virus |
| Main Entry: | fumes |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pollution, gas in air |
| Synonyms: | effluvium, exhalation, exhaust, haze, miasma, reek, smog, smoke, stench, vapor |
| Main Entry: | gas |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something not liquid or solid |
| Synonyms: | effluvium, fumes, miasma, smoke, stream, vapor, volatile substance |
| Notes: | fluids include liquids and gases; a liquid is a fluid with a fixed volume, and a gas is a fluid that can expand indefinitely |
| Antonyms: | liquid, solid |
| Main Entry: | haze |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cloudy air |
| Synonyms: | brume, cloud, film, fog, fumes, miasma, mist, murk, obscurity, smog, smother, steam, vapor, dimness, ground clouds, haziness, indistinctness, smokiness, soup* |
| Antonyms: | clarity, clearness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | poison |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | substance that causes harm, death |
| Synonyms: | adulteration, bacteria, bane, blight, cancer, contagion, contamination, corruption, germ, infection, malignancy, miasma, toxin, venom, virus, toxicant, toxoid, venin |
| Antonyms: | antidote |
| Main Entry: | vapor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fumes, mist |
| Synonyms: | breath, condensation, dew, effluvium, exhalation, fog, gas, haze, miasma, moisture, reek, smog, smoke, steam, dampness |
| Main Entry: | fog |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heavy mist that reduces visibility |
| Synonyms: | brume, cloud, effluvium, film, gloom, grease, haze, miasma, murk, nebula, obscurity, smog, smoke, smother, steam, vapor, wisp, London fog, ground clouds, murkiness, pea soup, smaze, soup*, visibility zero-zero |
| Antonyms: | clearness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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