Miasma

имя существительное миазмы, ядовитые испарения

Большой англо-русский словарь

Miasma

миазмы, вредные испарения

Англо-русский политехнический словарь

Miasma

noun (plural -mas; also miasmata) Etymology: New Latin, from Greek, defilement, from miainein to pollute 1. a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease; also a heavy vaporous emanation or atmosphere Example: a miasma of tobacco smoke 2. an influence or atmosphere that tends to deplete or corrupt Example: freed from the miasma of poverty — Sir Arthur Bryant; also an atmosphere that obscures; fog Example: retreated into an asexual mental miasma — Times Literary Supplementmiasmal adjectivemiasmatic adjectivemiasmic adjectivemiasmically adverb

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