VERB | perception | reek, smack, smell | have an element suggestive (of something) |
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perception | reek, stink | smell badly and offensively | |
body | reek, fume | be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face | |
weather | reek | give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc. | |
NOUN | cognition | reek, malodor, malodour, stench, stink, fetor, foetor, mephitis | a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant |
Sounds | riy'k | |
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Rhymes | antique ... wreak: 54 rhymes with iyk... |
Meaning | A distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant. | |
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Synonyms | malodor, malodour, stench, stink, fetor, foetor, mephitis | |
Narrower | niff, pong | An unpleasant smell |
Broader | smell, odor, odour, olfactory sensation, olfactory perception | The sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form |
Spanish | fetidez, fetor, foetor, hediondez, hedor, pebete, pestazo, peste, pestilencia, tufo | |
Catalan | ferum, foetor, fortor, mala olor, pesta, pestilència, pudor | |
Verbs | reek | smell badly and offensively |
Meaning | Have an element suggestive (of something). | |
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Pattern | Something ----s something | |
Synonyms | smack, smell | |
Broader | suggest, evoke, paint a picture | Call to mind |
Meaning | Smell badly and offensively. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s | |
Example | "The building reeks of smoke" | |
Synonym | stink | |
Broader | smell | Smell bad |
Spanish | apestar, heder | |
Catalan | empestar, fer podor, pudir | |
Nouns | reek | a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant |
Meaning | Be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s | |
Synonym | fume | |
Broader | exude, exudate, transude, ooze out, ooze | Release (a liquid / liquid) in drops or small quantities |
Catalan | fumejar |
Meaning | give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc.. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s | |
Example | "Marshes reeking in the sun" | |
Broader | emit, give out, give off | give off, send forth, or discharge |
Spanish | humear, vahear | |
Catalan | exhalar baf, fumar, fumejar |
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