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[ reek ] SHOW IPA
/ rik / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun a strong, unpleasant smell.
vapor or steam.
verb (used without object) to smell strongly and unpleasantly.
to be strongly pervaded with something unpleasant or offensive.
to give off steam, smoke, etc.
to be wet with sweat, blood, etc.
SEE MORE SEE LESS verb (used with object) to give off; emit; exude.
to expose to or treat with smoke.
Origin of reek before 900; (noun) Middle English rek (e ), Old English rēc smoke; cognate with German rauch, Dutch rook, Old Norse reykr; (v.) Middle English reken to smoke, steam, Old English rēocan
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OTHER WORDS FROM reek reeker, noun reek·ing·ly, adverb reeky, adjective Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020
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This is the kind of weak language that reek s of State Department memo writing and should never be uttered in public.
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It reek s of desperation and signals an inability to come to grips with modernity.
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It reek s of Stockholm syndrome—Romney seems to think his captors are his friends.
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"A singular room," he observed to Reek s, on concluding his survey.
Auriol | W. Harrison Ainsworth
It is thoroughly Irish; and reek s of the native soil and its people, wherein is its value to the traveller.
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The distant Reek s showed their clear summits in sharp outline, pointing to the summer sky.
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Auriol | W. Harrison Ainsworth
The Englishman vows the Italian reek s with the scent of garlic.
On the Mexican Highlands | William Seymour Edwards
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British Dictionary definitions for reek verb (intr) to give off or emit a strong unpleasant odour; smell or stink
(intr often foll by of ) to be permeated (by); be redolent (of) the letter reeks of subservience
(tr) to treat with smoke; fumigate
(tr) mainly dialect to give off or emit (smoke, fumes, vapour, etc)
noun a strong offensive smell; stink
mainly dialect smoke or steam; vapour
Derived forms of reek reeking , adjective reekingly , adverb reeky , adjective Word Origin for reek Old English rēocan ; related to Old Frisian riāka to smoke, Old High German rouhhan , Old Norse rjūka to smoke, steam
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Words related to reek stink, effluvium, smell, stench, fetor, mephitis, fume, steam, smoke, emit