Synonyms for reek
Grammar : Noun, verb |
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Phonetic Transcription : rik |
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Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for reek
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