Stink
[stɪŋk]
Definition
(verb.) be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance; 'This term paper stinks!'.
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Definition
(v. i.) To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.
(v. t.) To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.
(n.) A strong, offensive smell; a disgusting odor; a stench.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Smell bad, smell ill, emit a stench.
n. Stench, fetor, FUNK, offensive odor, bad smell.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Stench, fetor, bad_smell
ANT:Sweet_odor, fragrance
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Definition
v.i. to give out a strong offensive smell: to have a bad reputation:—pa.t. stank; pa.p. stunk.—n. a disagreeable smell.—ns. Stink′ard one who stinks: a base fellow: the stinking badger of Java; Stink′-ball -pot a ball or jar filled with a stinking combustible mixture used in boarding an enemy's vessel; Stink′er one who or that which stinks; Stink′ing.—adv. Stink′ingly in a stinking manner: with an offensive smell.—ns. Stink′stone a variety of limestone remarkable for the fetid urinous odour which it emits when rubbed; Stink′-trap a contrivance to prevent effluvia from drains; Stink′-wood the wood of a Cape tree remarkable for its strong offensive smell durable taking an excellent polish resembling walnut.
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Examples
- It's this sort of thing--this tyrannical spirit, wanting to play bishop and banker everywhere--it's this sort of thing makes a man's name stink. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I went into another chamber, but was ready to hasten back, being almost overcome with a horrible stink. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I think you stink. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I observed the young animal's flesh to smell very rank, and the stink was somewhat between a weasel and a fox, but much more disagreeable. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- A little way from this table, and separated by a partition, we had the chemical laboratory with its furnaces and stink-chambers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But your plan stinks. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It stinks of the offal you feed on, you scavenger dog, you eater of corpses. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There's dead bone in my foot that stinks right now. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- But the drunkard stinks and vomits in his own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Every morning I take new little pieces out and it stinks all the time. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- No man in England stinks like Cotton, said Brummell. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Mr. Bucket coolly asks as he turns his bull's-eye on a line of stinking ruins. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It left off stinking when it dried; and if Art requires these sort of sacrifices--though the girl is my own daughter--I say, let Art have them! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- How came those stinking butchers' candles in your room? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- A man will be mortified, if you tell him he has a stinking breath; though it is evidently no annoyance to himself. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- What it did, I can tell you in two words--it stank. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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