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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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