Reeking
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
reeking
adj 1: wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or
tears; "wiped his reeking neck" [syn: {reeking},
{watery}]
2: giving off a strong unpleasant smell
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Reek \Reek\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Reeked} (r[=e]kt); p. pr. &
vb. n. {Reeking}.] [As. r[=e]can. See {Reek} vapor.]
To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be
full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale.
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Few chimneys reeking you shall espy. --Spenser.
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I found me laid
In balmy sweat, which with his beams the sun
Soon dried, and on the reeking moisture fed. --Milton.
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The coffee rooms reeked with tobacco. --Macaulay.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
145 Moby Thesaurus words for "reeking":
BO, ablaze, aerial, aerodynamic, aerostatic, aery, afire, aflame,
aflicker, aglow, airy, alight, ardent, bad, bad breath, bad smell,
bad-smelling, blazing, body odor, burning, candent, candescent,
comburent, conflagrant, deafening, ethereal, fecal, fetid,
fetidity, fetidness, fetor, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flickering,
foul, foul breath, foul odor, frowst, frowsty, frowy, frowzy,
fulsome, fuming, fumy, funky, fusty, gamy, gaseous, gasified,
gasiform, gaslike, gassy, glowing, graveolence, graveolent,
guttering, halitosis, high, ignescent, ignited, ill-smelling,
in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, incandescent, inflamed, intense,
kindled, live, living, loud, malodor, malodorous, mephitic,
mephitis, miasma, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy,
moldy, musty, nidor, nidorous, noisome, nose-piercing, noxious,
noxious stench, odorous, offensive, offensive odor, olid, on fire,
oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, penetrating, piercing, pneumatic,
pungent, putrid, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, reechy, reek, reeky,
repulsive, rotten, rotten smell, scintillant, scintillating, sharp,
smellful, smelling, smelly, smoking, smoky, smoldering, sparking,
steaming, steamy, stench, stench of decay, stenchy, stink,
stinking, strong, strong-scented, strong-smelling, stuffy,
suffocating, sulfurous, thundering, unextinguished, unquenched,
vaporing, vaporish, vaporlike, vaporous, vapory, vile
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