Reek - English meaning

Reek – definitions in English dictionary

verb
Smell strongly and unpleasantly; stink.
Usage examples:
The yard reeked of wet straw and horse manure
Synonims:
Stink Smell Smell bad/disgusting Give off a bad smell Stink/smell to high heaven

noun
A foul smell.
Usage examples:
The reek of cattle dung
Synonims:
Stink Bad smell Foul smell Stench Taint Effluvium Niff Pong Whiff Hum Guff Funk Miasma Mephitis Malodour Fetor
noun
Smoke.
Usage examples:
He recovered himself and turned to peer through the reek

verb
To have a strong, unpleasant smell
Usage examples:
The locker room reeked of gym clothes., the reek of dead fish

Reek translation into English

Reek: translate from English into Chinese

臭气熏天, 腐臭, 发恶臭

Reek: translate from English into Dutch

Stinken, Stank, Vies ruiken, Sterk ruiken, Sterke lucht

Reek: translate from English into French

Puanteur, Relent, Puer, Fumée, Empester, Vapeur, Fumer, Sentir mauvais, Nuage

Reek: translate from English into German

Gestank, Stinken

Reek: translate from English into Hindi

भाप, धूआं, धूआं देना, वाष्प, धूआं छोड़ना, भाप देना, भाप छोड़ना, वाष्प देना, वाष्प छोड़ना, धुआं देना, भाप छोडना

Reek: translate from English into Italian

Puzza, Puzzo, Puzzare, Fumare, Esalazione vaporosa

Reek: translate from English into Korean

김, 연기가 나다, 악취를 풍기다, 기미가 있다, 투성이가 되다, 땀 따위 투성이가 되다, 피 따위 투성이가 되다

Reek: translate from English into Russian

Воняет, Вонь, Разить, Дым, Вонять, Пар, Испарение, Неприятно пахнуть, Пропахнуть, Испускать испарения, Испускать пар, Дымить, Куриться, Коптить, Дымиться, Сильный неприятный запах, Отдавать чем-л. неприятным

Reek: translate from English into Spanish

Hedor, Oler, Apestar, Mal olor, Heder, Humear, Vahear, Trascender

Word origin

Old English rēocan ‘give out smoke or vapour’, rēc (noun) ‘smoke’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch rieken ‘to smell’, rook ‘smoke’, German riechen ‘to smell’, Rauch ‘smoke’.

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Reek – similar words

reeked

verb
Smell strongly and unpleasantly; stink.
Usage examples:
The yard reeked of wet straw and horse manure

noun
A foul smell.
Usage examples:
The reek of cattle dung

noun
Smoke.
Usage examples:
He recovered himself and turned to peer through the reek

Reeked - all meanings in English

Reek synonims

effluvium

noun
An unpleasant or harmful odour or discharge.
Usage examples:
Smoke and effluvia from factory chimneys

Effluvium - all meanings in English

fetor

noun
A strong, foul smell.
Usage examples:
The fetor of decay

Fetor - all meanings in English

funk

noun
A state of great fear or panic.
Usage examples:
Are you in a blue funk about running out of things to say?

verb
Avoid (something) out of fear.
Usage examples:
I could have seen him this morning but i funked it

verb
Give music elements of funk.
Usage examples:
We're bringing back the old motown sound and funking it up

Funk - all meanings in English

guff

noun
Foolish talk or ideas.

noun
(of speech or writing) nonsense
Usage examples:
All that talk about an economic crisis is a lot of guff.

Guff - all meanings in English

hum

verb
Make a low, steady continuous sound like that of a bee.
Usage examples:
The computers hummed

noun
A low, steady continuous sound.
Usage examples:
The hum of insects

exclamation
Used to express hesitation or dissent.
Usage examples:
‘ah, hum, elsie, isn't it?’

Hum - all meanings in English

malodour

noun
A very unpleasant smell.
Usage examples:
In most cases, the malodour is obvious to the sufferer

Malodour - all meanings in English

mephitis

noun
A noxious or foul-smelling gas or vapour.

Mephitis - all meanings in English

miasma

noun
An unpleasant or unhealthy smell or vapour.
Usage examples:
A miasma of stale alcohol hung around him

noun
An unpleasant fog that smells bad
Usage examples:
A miasma of pollution hung in the air above mexico city., after he lost his job, he sank into a mia…

Miasma - all meanings in English

niff

noun
An unpleasant smell.
Usage examples:
The horrible fishy niff

verb
Have an unpleasant smell.
Usage examples:
A dark room that always niffed a bit

noun
An unpleasant smell
Usage examples:
A nasty niff

Niff - all meanings in English

pong

noun
A strong, unpleasant smell.
Usage examples:
Corked wine has a powerful pong

verb
Smell strongly and unpleasantly.
Usage examples:
The place just pongs of dirty clothes

Pong - all meanings in English

smell

noun
The faculty or power of perceiving odours or scents by means of the organs in the nose.
Usage examples:
A highly developed sense of smell

verb
Perceive or detect the odour or scent of (something).
Usage examples:
I think i can smell something burning

verb
The faculty that enables us to distinguish scents

Smell - all meanings in English

stench

noun
A strong and very unpleasant smell.
Usage examples:
The stench of rotting fish

Stench - all meanings in English

stink

verb
Have a strong unpleasant smell.
Usage examples:
The place stank like a sewer

noun
A strong unpleasant smell; a stench.
Usage examples:
The stink of the place hit me as i went in

adjective
Having a strong unpleasant smell.
Usage examples:
‘what you doing with that stink dog?’

Stink - all meanings in English

taint

noun
A trace of a bad or undesirable substance or quality.
Usage examples:
The lingering taint of creosote

verb
Contaminate or pollute (something).
Usage examples:
The air was tainted by fumes from the cars

noun
The perineum.

Taint - all meanings in English

whiff

noun
A smell that is only smelt briefly or faintly.
Usage examples:
I caught a whiff of eau de cologne

verb
Get a brief or faint smell of.
Usage examples:
He whiffed the broth that was simmering on the stove

noun
Another term for megrim2.

Whiff - all meanings in English

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