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puer

/pɥe/ verb B1
  1. to stink, to smell (bad) (intransitive)
  2. to stink of (transitive) · Cet homme pue l’ail. That man stinks of garlic.
  3. to be awful; to be repulsive (figuratively, intransitive)
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Verb forms

Infinitive
puer
Present participle
puant
Past participle
pué
Present (je)
pue
Future (je)
puerai
Passé composé (je)
ai pué

From the library

En effet, on envoya chercher deux soldats et l'on commença de descendre par un escalier si puant, si infect, si moisi, que rien que le passage dans un pareil endroit affectait désagréablement à la fois la vue, l'odorat et la respiration.
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, p. 135 · C1

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