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reeking
[reek] 
| Main Entry: |
reek
[reek]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | smell of; be characterized by |
| Synonyms: | be permeated by, be redolent of, emit, fume, give off odor, have an odor, smell, smoke, steam, stench, stink |
| Notes: | redolent (an adjective) is customarily used of pleasant odors while reek (a verb) is used of odors that are sensorily unpleasing; redolent, 'emitting a strong odor or smell,' comes from Latin olere 'emit a smell' |
| Main Entry: | emit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diffuse, discharge |
| Synonyms: | afford, beam, belch, breathe, cast out, disembogue, drip, eject, emanate, erupt, evacuate, excrete, exhale, expectorate, expel, expend, expire, extrude, exude, give off, give out, give vent to, gush, issue, jet, let off, loose, ooze, pass, perspire, pour, pronounce, purge, radiate, reek, secrete, send forth, send out, shed, shoot, speak, spew, spill, spit, squirt, throw out, transmit, utter, vent, voice, void, vomit, yield |
| Antonyms: | conceal, contain, refrain, repress, suppress, withhold |
| Main Entry: | fetid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | foul, rancid |
| Synonyms: | corrupt, fusty, grody, gross*, icky, loathsome, lousy, malodorous, mephitic, noisome, noxious, offensive, putrid, rank, reeking, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, smelly, stenchy, stinking, stinky, strong, yecchy, yucky |
| Antonyms: | aromatic, clean, fragrant, pure, sweet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gamy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ill-smelling; corrupt |
| Synonyms: | fetid, foul, malodorous, pungent, rancid, rank, reeking, seamy, sordid, strong-flavored, strong-smelling, strong-tasting, tainted |
| Main Entry: | high |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shrill, strong (on the senses) |
| Synonyms: | acute, high-pitched, loud, malodorous, penetrating, piercing, piping, putrid, rancid, rank, reeking, sharp, smelly, soprano, strident, treble |
| Antonyms: | low, soft, weak |
| Main Entry: | malodorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | foul-smelling |
| Synonyms: | bad, decayed, decomposed, fetid, foul, frowzy, funky*, fusty, gamy, high*, infested, lousy, mephitic, musty, nasty, nauseating, noisome, noxious, off*, offensive, pestilential, poisonous, polluted, putrid, rancid, rank, reeking, rotten, smelly, stale, stenchful, stinking, strong, tainted, vile |
| Antonyms: | aromatic, fragrant, perfumed, savory, sweet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | noisome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral, bad, offensive |
| Synonyms: | baneful, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, disgusting, fetid, foul, harmful, horrid, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, insalutary, loathsome, malodorous, mephitic, mischievous, nauseating, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, putrid, rank, reeking, repulsive, sickening, sickly, smelly, stinking, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome, vile, yucky |
| Notes: | noisome means noxious, harmful, unwholesome or offensive to the smell or other senses, while noisy means full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds |
| Antonyms: | good, just, moral, upright |
| Main Entry: | odorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having fragrance |
| Synonyms: | aromatic, balmy, dank, effluvious, fetid, flavorsome, flowery, foul, fragrant, heady, honeyed, loud, malodorous, mephitic, miasmic, moldy, musty, nauseous, odoriferant, odoriferous, offensive, olfactive, olfactory, perfumatory, perfumed, perfumy, pungent, putrid, redolent, reeking, rotten, savorous, savory, scent-laden, scented, scentful, skunky, smelly, spicy, stagnant, stale, stinking, strong, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, tumaceous, unsavory, whiffy |
| Antonyms: | odorless |
| Main Entry: | putrid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rotten, stinking |
| Synonyms: | bad, contaminated, corrupt, decayed, decomposed, fetid, foul, high, malodorous, moldered, nidorous, noisome, off, putrefied, rancid, rank, reeking, rotting, smelly, spoiled, strong, tainted, whiffy |
| Antonyms: | fresh, perfumed, sweet |
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