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Reeking   /rˈikɪŋ/   Listen
Reeking

adjective
1.
Wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears.  Synonym: watery.
2.
Giving off a strong unpleasant smell.


Reek

verb
(past & past part. reeked; pres. part. reeking)
1.
Have an element suggestive (of something).  Synonyms: smack, smell.  "This passage smells of plagiarism"
2.
Smell badly and offensively.  Synonym: stink.
3.
Be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face.  Synonym: fume.
4.
Give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc..





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"Reeking" Quotes from Famous Books



... warmth it increased to an uncomfortable warmth; then to a positively intolerable, reeking wet heat. ...
— Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures • Edgar Franklin
... abroad, carrying in their hands flowers or fragrant herbs or divers sorts of spices, which they frequently raised to their noses, deeming it an excellent thing thus to comfort the brain with such perfumes, because the air seemed to be everywhere laden and reeking with the stench emitted by the dead and the dying and the odours ...
— The Decameron, Volume I • Giovanni Boccaccio
... in our great-coats," said one of them afterwards, "reeking of cigars and brandy-and-water, d—e, sir, we quite frightened the old buck of a parson; he did not much like our company." After the ceremony was concluded, these gentlemen were very happy to get home to a warm and comfortable ...
— The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh • William Makepeace Thackeray
... his own use. Neither were the trappings out of keeping with the steeds they decked. Moth eaten saddles, almost black with age, beneath which were spread pieces of dirty blanket to prevent further excoriation of the already bared and reeking back—bridles, the original thickness of which had been doubled by the incrustation of mould and dirt that pertinaciously adhered to them—stirrups and bits, with their accompanying buckles (the absence of curb chains being supplied ...
— The Canadian Brothers - or The Prophecy Fulfilled • John Richardson
... of another world, the wealthy and the luxurious spending their wealth and their time in many kinds of enjoyment, but to the very poor pleasure scarcely comes except in the form of the gin palace or perhaps the low music hall. And in many cases they have come into this reeking atmosphere of temptation and vice with natures debased and enfeebled by a long succession of vicious hereditary influences, with weak wills, with no faculties of mind or character that can respond to any healthy ambition; with ...
— The Map of Life - Conduct and Character • William Edward Hartpole Lecky


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