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  (mī-ăz'mə, mē-) pronunciation
n., pl. -mas or -ma·ta (-mə-tə).
  1. A noxious atmosphere or influence: “The family affection, the family expectations, seemed to permeate the atmosphere . . . like a coiling miasma” (Louis Auchincloss).
    1. A poisonous atmosphere formerly thought to rise from swamps and putrid matter and cause disease.
    2. A thick vaporous atmosphere or emanation: wreathed in a miasma of cigarette smoke.

[Greek, pollution, stain, from miainein, to pollute.]

miasmal mi·as'mal or mi'as·mat'ic ('əz-măt'ĭk) or mi·as'mic (-mĭk) adj.
 
 

Whew, something doesn't smell so good! New York Times columnist Frank Rich rapped President Bush for the continuing war in Iraq, which, Rich wrote, was a mistake from the start:

"It was in Cincinnati on Oct. 7, 2002, that Bush gave the fateful address that sped congressional ratification of the war just days later. The speech was a miasma of self-delusion, half-truths and hype."

Link: Someone tell the president the war is over

Posted August 16, 2005.

 

Noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; the basis for an early concept of the origin of epidemics.


 
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IN BRIEF: A vapor from a swamp. Also: A harmful influence.

pronunciation One does not argue or contend with the foul miasma that settles over stagnant water; one leaves it and climbs to a higher region, where the air is pure and the sunshine fair. — Lillian Whiting.

 
Wikipedia: Miasma (band)

Miasma were a cult death metal band from Austria, founded in 1990. The band only released one album, and subsequently, one EP. Changes was remastered and re-released by Napalm Records in 2001 packaged with the Love Songs EP. Together with Disharmonic Orchestra, Pungent Stench, Asphyx, the middle-European got to know a new breeze of Death Metal, that was a kind of unique in the German-speaking territories. Inspired by bands like Napalm Death, Entombed, Celtic Frost, Death, etc. they ought to create a very proper sound, that convinced many heavy metal fans from the start. After many differences between band members in the past and other proper personal reasons, Miasma finally split at the beginning of the new millennium. In 2006, the band reunited in Vienna, working on a new album, that is set to be released at the end of 2007. New members have joined the band, namely Michael Fischer (Bass) and Johnny Patrascu (Guitar).


Discography

Former members

  • Gorehead - Vocals
  • Peter Prochazka - Guitars
  • Ares Cancer - Guitars
  • Capral Adorator - Drums
  • Attems - Bass

Current members

  • Gorehead - Vocals
  • Johnny Patrascu - Guitars
  • Ares Cancer - Guitars
  • Michael Fischer - Bass

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Translations: Translations for: Miasma

Dansk (Danish)
n. - smittekim, miasme

Nederlands (Dutch)
wolk van viezigheid, corrumperende invloed, mist (ook figuurlijk)

Français (French)
n. - miasmes (sout)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Gestank

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μίασμα, άγος

Italiano (Italian)
miasma

Português (Portuguese)
n. - miasma (m)

Русский (Russian)
вредные испарения

Español (Spanish)
n. - miasma

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - smittämne, utdunstning, töcken

中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
毒气, 沼气

中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 毒氣, 沼氣

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 독 기운, 좋지 않은 분위기

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 毒気, 悪い雰囲気, 悪影響

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) زنخه, زناخه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אדים רעילים (מיושן)‬


 
 

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