单词	miasma
释义	miasmami‧as‧ma /miˈæzmə, maɪ-/ noun [singular] literary Word Origin WORD ORIGINmiasma Origin: 1600-1700 Greek ‘making dirty’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES An acrid miasma came from the sewage plant. You feel the devastation of the war like a miasma over the battlefield. EXAMPLES FROM THE 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. 1dirty air or a thick unpleasant mist that smells bad:  He looked up at me through a miasma of cigarette smoke. A foul miasma lay over the town.2an evil influence or feeling that seems to surround a person or placemiasma of The miasma of defeat hung over them.
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