Antonyms for reek

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : reek

Phonetic Transcription : rik

Definition of reek

Origin : Old English rec (Anglian), riec (West Saxon), "smoke from burning material," probably from a Scandinavian source, cf. Old Norse reykr, Danish rǿg, Swedish rök "smoke, steam," from Proto-Germanic *raukiz (cf. Old Frisian rek, Middle Dutch rooc, Old High German rouh, German Rauch "smoke, steam"), from PIE *reug- "to vomit, belch;" also "smoke, cloud." Sense of "stench" is attested 1650s, via the notion of "that which rises" (cf. reek (v.)).

noun strong odor
verb smell of; be characterized by

Example sentences :

In later years our lips grow tainted and reek of our passions.
Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola

The reek of spirits, the greasy rancid steam of food got Razumov by the throat.
Extract from : « Under Western Eyes » by Joseph Conrad

The air, which should have been clean, was filled with the reek of unfamiliar odors.
Extract from : « The Whispering Spheres » by Russell Robert Winterbotham

Involuntarily I turned my head away at the reek of his breath.
Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service

Here we are all just ready to drop down, and the critters all in a reek of sweat.
Extract from : « Uncle Tom's Cabin » by Harriet Beecher Stowe

So the air is dense with tobacco smoke and the reek of beer and champagne.
Extract from : « One Man's Initiation--1917 » by John Dos Passos

Macauley's cigars were of a strong brand; the air was blue with their reek.
Extract from : « Red Pepper Burns » by Grace S. Richmond

Peoples minds in the houses are like the houses: they reek with propriety.
Extract from : « The Lost Art of Reading » by Gerald Stanley Lee

There was battle in the air, now blue with smoke and rank with the reek of tobacco.
Extract from : « A Spoil of Office » by Hamlin Garland

It is in the names of Liberty and Brotherhood that the prisons will reek, and the headsman be glutted.
Extract from : « Zanoni » by Edward Bulwer Lytton

Synonyms for reek

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