Meaning & use
Miasmatic
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Relating to or contaminated with miasma, an unpleasant or unhealthy vapor once believed to cause disease.
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The miasmatic fog clung to the swamp, thick with the stench of rot.
Victorian doctors blamed miasmatic air rising from sewers for the spread of cholera.
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The word comes from Greek 'miasma' meaning pollution; the now-discredited 'miasma theory' held that disease spread through bad air rather than germs.
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