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stink with

/stingk/US // stɪŋk //UK // (stɪŋk) //

恶臭与,臭味相投,臭气熏天

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v.无主动词 verb
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    stank [stangk] /stæŋk/ or, often, stunk [stuhngk]; /stʌŋk/; stunk; stink·ing.

    • : to emit a strong offensive smell.
    • : to be offensive to honesty or propriety; to be in extremely bad repute or disfavor.
    • : Informal. to be disgustingly inferior: That book stinks.
    • : Slang. to have a large quantity of something: They stink of money. She stinks with jewelry.
v.有主动词 verb
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    stank [stangk] /stæŋk/ or, often, stunk [stuhngk]; /stʌŋk/; stunk; stink·ing.

    • : to cause to stink or be otherwise offensive: an amateurish performance that really stank up the stage.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a strong offensive smell; stench.
    • : Informal. an unpleasant fuss; scandal: There was a big stink about his accepting a bribe.
    • : stinks,British Slang. chemistry as a course of study.
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    • : stink out, to repel or drive out by means of a highly offensive smell.

Phrases

  • stink to high heaven
  • big stink
  • make a stink
  • smell (stink) up

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • This never worked quite right—we’re all familiar with the public bathroom aroma of powerfully perfumed cleaning agents trying to overpower an undertone of residual stink.

  • Apocrine glands become active at puberty and are primarily responsible for turning armpits into stink zones from adolescence onward.

  • Extended stays in a damp petri-dish pile of clothes, not the initial exposure to sweat on your ride, is what leads to persistent stink over time.

  • People first gave me the stink eye in London as I was American, but I got more of that in Puerto Rico from expat Americans.

  • And yet, this will be the media frame: “Obama throws stink bomb.”

  • Shortly after his confession, Vision Forum Ministries closed up shop, unable to continue with the stink of sex scandal upon them.

  • Hilton danced in a corner by herself while her then-boyfriend, shipping heir Stavros Niarchos, gave her the stink eye.

  • As you get older, the more you think, the more you stink, really.

  • Intellectual shut-ins are a dime a dozen these days, and they all stink just as bad as the next one.

  • Their slain shall be cast forth, and out of their carcasses shall rise a stink: the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

  • Alan would take the spinning pass and bound forward into the stink-stained Modern juniors or embryo subalterns of Army C.

  • Get the stink blown off you—forget some terrible things that had happened to you.

  • Fresh fish and unwelcome friends stink before they're three days auld.

  • Proverb: When fish has gone bad ten thousand decent men can't take away the stink.