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Reeking

adjective

Wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears. Synonym: watery.

Giving off a strong unpleasant smell.

Reek

verb

(past & past part. reeked; pres. part. reeking)

Have an element suggestive (of something). Synonyms: smack, smell. "This passage smells of plagiarism"

Smell badly and offensively. Synonym: stink.

Be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face. Synonym: fume.

Give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc..

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"Reeking" Quotes from Famous Books

... picture Borneo, if you please, as a vast, squat island the third largest in the world, in fact—half again as large as France, bordered by a sandy littoral, moated by swamps reeking with putrid miasmata and pernicious vapors, covered with dense forests and impenetrable jungles, ridged by mile-high mountain ranges, seamed by mighty rivers, inhabited by the most savage beasts and ...

— Where the Strange Trails Go Down • E. Alexander Powell

... commercial traveller like Micawber; you will find him but one of a batch of silly clerks like Swiveller; you will find him as an unsuccessful actor like Crumples; you will find him as an unsuccessful doctor like Sawyer; you will always find the rich and reeking personality where Dickens ...

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Patrick Braybrooke

... on my shoulder—tried to crawl a little higher— Found the Main Drain sewage outfall blocked, some eight feet up, with mire; And, for twenty reeking minutes, Sir, my very marrow froze, While the trunk was feeling blindly for ...

— Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads • Rudyard Kipling

... as he went bowing down His reeking head full low, The bottles twain behind his back Were shatter'd ...

— Graded Poetry: Seventh Year - Edited by Katherine D. Blake and Georgia Alexander • Various

... it. No answer. He struck spurs into the reeking flanks of his horse. The animal refused to stir. Just then there was a moaning sound in the wood, as of some one in pain. He turned in the direction, shouted, but received no answer. When he looked back the red eyes ...

— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth

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