Meaning of REEK
| Pronunciation: | | reek
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- [n] a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant
- [v] be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face
- [v] smell to heaven
- [v] have an element suggestive (of something); "his speeches smacked of racism"
- [v] give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc.; "Marshes reeking in the sun"
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| | Synonyms: | | fetor, foetor, fume, malodor, malodour, smack, stench, stink, stink |
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| | See Also: | | emit, evoke, exudate, exude, give off, give out, niff, odor, odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation, ooze, ooze out, paint a picture, pong, smell, smell, smell up, stink out, stink up, suggest, transude | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Reek\ (r[=e]k), n.
A rick. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
\Reek\, n. [AS. r[emc]c; akin to OFries. r[=e]k, LG. & D.
rook, G. rauch, OHG. rouh, Dan. r["o]g, Sw. r["o]k, Icel.
reykr, and to AS. re['o]can to reek, smoke, Icel. rj[=u]ka,
G. riechen to smell.]
Vapor; steam; smoke; fume.
As hateful to me as the reek of a limekiln. --Shak.
\Reek\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Reeked} (r[=e]kt); p. pr. &
vb. n. {Reeking}.] [As. r[=e]can. See {Reek} vapor.]
To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be
full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale.
Few chimneys reeking you shall espy. --Spenser.
I found me laid In balmy sweat, which with his beams
the sun Soon dried, and on the reeking moisture fed.
--Milton.
The coffee rooms reeked with tobacco. --Macaulay.
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