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Reek

verb

(past & past part. reeked; pres. part. reeking)

Have an element suggestive (of something). Synonyms: smack, smell. "This passage smells of plagiarism"

Smell badly and offensively. Synonym: stink.

Be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face. Synonym: fume.

Give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc..

noun

A distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant. Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, stench, stink.

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"Reek" Quotes from Famous Books

... winter stores of meat and skins. The packed hut was passably well ventilated, but its heavy, meaty smells were not the same to our noses as those we were accustomed to in the sprucy nooks of the evergreen woods. The circle of black eyes peering at us through a fog of reek and smoke made a novel picture. We were glad, however, to get within reach of information, and of course asked many questions concerning the ice-mountains and the strange bay, to most of which our inquisitive Hoona friends replied with counter-questions as to our object in coming ...

— Travels in Alaska • John Muir

... moon, but blinding white to look at, and hot; and a breath of hot wind blew now with its rising and gathering strength, and in Virginia, and Brazil, and down the St. Lawrence valley, it shone intermittently through a driving reek of thunder-clouds, flickering violet lightning, and hail unprecedented. In Manitoba was a thaw and devastating floods. And upon all the mountains of the earth the snow and ice began to melt that night, and all the rivers coming out of high country flowed ...

— The Door in the Wall And Other Stories • H. G. Wells

... his outstretched hands touched the round, shiny thing, and he could smell the reek ...

— The Women-Stealers of Thrayx • Fox B. Holden

... the choicest kinds, too—deer of many varieties, and antelope, and the little wild horse whose flesh they accounted such a delicacy. They slew, and slew, and their cooking-fires were busy night and day, and the flesh they could not devour was dried in the sun in long strips or smoked in the reek of green-wood fires. They feasted greedily, but there was something sinister in the whole matter, something ominous; and they would stop at times to wonder anxiously what stroke of fate could be ...

— In the Morning of Time • Charles G. D. Roberts

... sage had whipped her soft fur full of sage dust, its sharp scent nearly obliterating the conglomerate smell of the cabin which usually clung to her. The reek of coyote scent and fresh blood that permeated the spot still further concealed it, and though the wolf caught the peculiar odor he could not trace its source to her without closer inspection. He was hungry and advanced to the meat, tearing off huge ...

— The Yellow Horde • Hal G. Evarts

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