verb, noun
verb [V] ~ (of sth)
1 to smell very strongly of sth unpleasant:
His breath reeked of tobacco.
2 (disapproving) to suggest very strongly that sth unpleasant or suspicious is involved in a situation:
Her denials reeked of hypocrisy.
noun [sing.] a strong unpleasant smell:
the reek of cigarettes and beer
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for reek is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does reek appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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