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Miasma Mi‧As‧Ma Miˈæzmə Maɪ Noun Singular Literary 1dirty

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Back mi‧as‧ma /miˈæzmə, maɪ-/ noun [singular] literary
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 place
miasma of
The miasma of defeat hung over them.

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