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🤢 To smell bad ⚠️ To suggest something bad 💦 To be soaked 🦨 A bad smell 💨 To give off vapor
to reek

to reek

8 8.2
Be wet with sweat or blood
  • verb
  • /rik/
  • NSFW
translation icon : estar cubierto de
  • You reek, soldier.
  • reek of sweat
  • reek with blood
  • a reeking body

Examples

  • Quint sat next to me at dinner, reeking of whiskey.

    The Turning (2020)

  • Shane is already disappearing down the narrow hall, and Lindy stumbles after him into a tiny bedroom that reeks of sweat.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • - You reek of it.

    The Wife (2018)

  • I still reek of it.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • But you reek of whiskey.

    Bad Santa 2 (2016)

  • You reek of baby puke.

    Life As We Know It (2010)

  • I'm pretty sure I still reek of tequila.

    What Men Want (2019)

  • You reek of alcohol.

    Jacob's Paradox (2015)

  • Peter's face looked strained; his normally clean-shaven cheeks were black with stubble, and his filthy clothes reeked of sweat.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • After working out at the gym, I always reek of sweat and need a shower.

Phrasal Verbs

to reek of
48 6.3

Have a very strong unpleasant smell or seem full of a bad quality

How Saturated

to reek
  • NSFW
8 8.2
drenched
1 3.9
wet
1 1.0
damp
11 1.0

Surface Forms

reek infinitive
reeked past
reeked past participle
reeking present participle
reeks third person singular

Etymology

Reek comes from the old word reyk for 'smoke' or 'steam', and you can picture someone 'steaming' with sweat or blood. A helpful way to remember this is that to reek can mean to be covered or wet with sweat or blood.