reek

Meaning

Noun

1. A strong unpleasant smell.
2. Vapour; steam; smoke; fume.

Verb

1. To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.
2. To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.
3. To be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.
4. To emit smoke or vapour; to steam.
5. To cause (something) to smell.

Synonyms

stink

smell

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stench

give off an odour

fetor

smoke

fume

pong

malodour

bad smell

smelliness

feel

niff

odor

finger

grope

sense

smell bad

touch

fog

🌫️

belch

evaporation

fetidness

malodorousness

mephitis

odour

smack

steam

emit smoke

vapour

fill with smoke

foetor

malodor

foulness

be disseminated

aflame

extend

exhale

spread

be rank

steamer

exhalation

emit

give off a bad odor

stink out

diffuse

vapor

vaporisation

vaporization

vapors

stink to high heaven

vapours

water vapor

bristle

smeek

erhale

falstench

breathe

breath

be full

mell

smell strongly

hum

lunt

plume

fumigate

puff out

rankness

scent

Pronounced as (IPA)

/riːk/

Etymology

From Middle English rek, reke (“smoke”), from Old English rēc, rīec, from Proto-West Germanic *rauki, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz, from Proto-Indo-European *rowgi-.
See also West Frisian reek, riik, Dutch rook, Low German Röök, German Rauch, Danish røg, Norwegian Bokmål røyk; also Lithuanian rū̃kti (“to smoke”), rū̃kas (“smoke, fog”), Albanian regj (“to tan”).