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reeking

/reek/US // rik //UK // (riːk) //

臭气熏天,臭气熏天的,臭气冲天,臭哄哄的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a strong, unpleasant smell.
    • : vapor or steam.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to smell strongly and unpleasantly.
    • : to be strongly pervaded with something unpleasant or offensive.
    • : to give off steam, smoke, etc.
    • : to be wet with sweat, blood, etc.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to give off; emit; exude.
    • : to expose to or treat with smoke.

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Examples

  • While on the Celtics, Baker was caught showing up to practice reeking of booze.

  • Reeking of cigarette smoke and body odor, Bassam smiled, seeming to understand and excuse my monolinguism.

  • The bodies hung there for weeks, reeking and swelling grotesquely in the equatorial heat.

  • And the man who had done all this—a vulgar upstart out of Paris, reeking of leather and the barrack-room still lived!

  • The assassins in the court-yard, with weapons reeking with blood, were howling for their prey.

  • I routed him out, in the dim mephitic place reeking of sour bedding, and put Petersen in his charge.

  • Too feeble to walk or to stand, he crawled away from the (p. 413) dying and the dead, over the ground reeking with filth.

  • "That's probably why I found my private laboratory reeking of cyanide fumes a fortnight later," remarked Dorr dryly.