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Antonyms for stink

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : stingk
Phonetic Transcription : stɪŋk

Definition of stink

Origin :
  • Old English stincan "emit a smell of any kind" (class III strong verb; past tense stonc), from West Germanic *stenkwanan (cf. Old Saxon stincan, Old High German stinkan, Dutch stinken), from the root of stench. Old English swote stincan "to smell sweet," but offensive sense began in Old English and was primary by mid-13c.; smell now tends the same way. Figurative meaning "be offensive" is from early 13c.; meaning "be inept" is recorded from 1924. To stink to high heaven first recorded 1963.
  • noun bad smell
  • verb smell badly
  • verb be lousy, bad
Example sentences :
  • If they had anything to do with developing Wicklow they'd make it stink!
  • Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine
  • I've come through that, an' all the stink of it; I've come through sorrer.
  • Extract from : « Hall-Marked and Others (From Six Short Plays) » by John Galsworthy
  • How frightful my blemishes, which must stink in His nostrils!
  • Extract from : « The Golden Fountain » by Lilian Staveley
  • "They shelled this place like stink yesterday," Collinge told me.
  • Extract from : « Pushed and the Return Push » by George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex)
  • All that fuss and stink is to get 'em to Gallowstree Dip before we pass it.
  • Extract from : « Ambrotox and Limping Dick » by Oliver Fleming
  • "Your Bureau brought us the stink of burning," MacHenery said.
  • Extract from : « The Great Potlatch Riots » by Allen Kim Lang
  • The change comes, and these plants will wither and rot and stink.
  • Extract from : « Saint's Progress » by John Galsworthy
  • Do you extrapolate your mastications, too, and get frightened of the stink you might get?
  • Extract from : « Breaking Point » by James E. Gunn
  • Toad-flax is certainly not a "mushroom," neither does it "stink."
  • Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Number 58, December 7, 1850 » by Various
  • They stink, really stink, and if it wasn't for the food we get from them they'd all be dead tomorrow.
  • Extract from : « Deathworld » by Harry Harrison

Synonyms for stink

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