reeking

Verb

reek (third-person singular simple present reeks, present participle reeking, simple past and past participle reeked)

1. (intransitive) To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.
   • You reek of perfume.
2. (figuratively, intransitive) To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.
   • The boss appointing his nephew as a director reeks of nepotism.

   Synonyms:

   smack

3. (archaic, intransitive) To be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.
4. (archaic, intransitive) To emit smoke or vapour; to steam.
   • […] innumerable Legions of his Angels of Light, the warm gleames of whose presence is able to make the Mountains to reek and smoak, and to awake that fiery principle that lies dormient in the Earth into a devouring flame.1660, Henry More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness, page 236
5. (rare, transitive) To cause (something) to smell.
   • The slaughter of lambs in offering reeked the fore-courts of the Temple.1880, Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur
6. (archaic) To fall in such a way (e.g. particularly finely or heavily) as to resemble smoke.
   • ... the snow still darkens the air, and reeks along the curling wreaths, as if each were a furnace.1837, Robert Mudie, Spring, or the causes, appearances, and effects, of the seasonal renovations of nature in all climats, page 266

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