Reek
[riːk] or [rik]
Definition
(verb.) be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face.
(verb.) smell badly and offensively; 'The building reeks of smoke'.
(verb.) give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc.; 'Marshes reeking in the sun'.
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Definition
(n.) A rick.
(n.) Vapor; steam; smoke; fume.
(v. i.) To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Smoke, steam, exhalation, vapor, effluvium, fume, mist.
v. n. Smoke, steam, emit vapor.
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Definition
n. smoke: vapour.—v.i. to emit smoke or vapour: to steam.—adj. Reek′y full of reek: smoky: soiled with steam or smoke: foul.
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Examples
- All the uses and scents of the brewery might have evaporated with its last reek of smoke. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He was back in a moment, and I smelt a strong reek of brandy as he passed me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Here we are all just ready to drop down, and the critters all in a reek of sweat. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Misty it is still, glowing through clouds of dust and reek. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The door closed once more, and the pungent reek of a strong cigar was borne to our nostrils. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- From the open door there reeked a horrible poisonous exhalation which set us gasping and coughing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- And then he left the hot reeking room in the borough court, and went out into the fresher, but still sultry street. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- And the first thing that occurred was the infliction on us of a placard fairly reeking with wretched English. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The streets of Magdala are any where from three to six feet wide, and reeking with uncleanliness. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He made this valley, so quiet now, a reeking slaughter-pen. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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