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 Translation for 'bad air' from English to Icelandic
loftleysi {hv}bad air
Partial Matches
afleitur {adj}bad
válegur {adj}bad
vondur {adj}bad
lélegur {adj}bad
slæmur {adj}bad
veðurfr.
óveður {hv}
bad weather
ills viti {k}bad omen
illtíðindi {hv.ft}bad news
kák {hv}bad job
önuglyndur {adj}bad-tempered
horfa þunglegato look bad
veðurfr.
þungviðri {hv}
bad weather
alslæmur {adj}all bad
alvondur {adj}all bad
læknisfr.
andfýla {kv} [talm.]
bad breath
læknisfr.
andremma {kv}
bad breath
óáran {kv}bad harvest
óáran {kv}bad year
óáran {kv}bad season
ódannaður {adj}bad-mannered
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Usage Examples English
  • He said: "The golden age of prizefighting was the age of bad food, bad air, bad sanitation, and no sunlight.
  • One of the main problems of citizens living in the area of the investment is the bad air quality of Silesia region and Rybnik city in particular.
  • It is described as a "bad air cave" with measured carbon dioxide levels as high as 5.9%.
  • Many of the older remedies were based on the miasma theory, that the disease was transmitted by bad air.
  • After flooding, the land was considered unsuitable for dairy cattle for some time and the resulting bad air was said to cause "attacks of the ague" in local people.

  • In 2008 the race was canceled due to bad air quality and smoke from an unprecedented number of wildfires.
  • s Captain Araki Tsuto—who survived the sinking of his ship—blamed the loss of his cruiser on bad air reconnaissance and poor leadership from the 8th fleet staff under Admiral Mikawa.
  • Despite much local opposition, Liverpool Road was believed to be a much better position for a fever hospital because it was on the top of a gravel ridge, high and well drained, and thought likely to be free of the miasma, or bad air, held to cause disease.
  • He was involved in a bad air crash on 15 July, and spent five months in hospital.
  • In a report by French "Respire" organization, from 2014, Wrocław was ranked the eighth most polluted European city, with 166 days of bad air quality per year.

  • From the dust the wind picks up, to the smog produced by vehicles, to the pollen in the air, the valley has several bad air days.
  • Ventilating a space with fresh air aims to avoid "bad air". The study of what constitutes bad air dates back to the 1600s when the scientist Mayow studied asphyxia of animals in confined bottles.
  • Similarly, an oxygen inhalation protocol was recommend for malaria (literally translated to "bad air") in 1830 based on malaria symptoms aligning with carbon monoxide poisoning.
  • As the cause of the plague was unknown to contemporaries, with speculations reaching from religious causes over "bad air" to contaminated clothes, the only means of fighting the disease was containment, to separate the ill from the healthy.
  • Bad air was thought to be a cause of ill-health and death in the 18th century.

  • The fans in the shaft would exhaust bad air from the tunnels and blow it up into the shaft out of one of the four ducts.
  • The district can also identify trends in specific areas and use that information to provide air filtration systems to schools affected by consistently bad air quality.
  • Bad be famine, war, bad air; but worse still, bad neighbor.
  • —"bad air"; the disease was formerly called "ague" or "marsh fever" due to its association with swamps and marshland.
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