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(intransitive) To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell. / (intransitive, figuratively) To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.

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reek

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Source Word

reek

IPA(Pronunciation)

/riːk/

intransitive figuratively archaic

Japanese Meaning

強烈で不快な臭いを放つ / 不快な何かに明らかに関連している（比喩的な意味）

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After sitting in the sun all day, the old gym socks began to reek.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

一日中日なたに置かれていた古いジム用の靴下は、悪臭を放ち始めた。

Sense（1）

(intransitive) To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.

You reek of perfume.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（2）

(intransitive, figuratively) To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.

The boss appointing his nephew as a director reeks of nepotism.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（3）

(archaic, intransitive) To be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.

Sense（4）

(archaic, intransitive) To emit smoke or vapour; to steam.

[…] innumerable Legions of his Angels of Light, the warm gleames of whose presence is able to make the Mountains to reek and smoak, and to awake that fiery principle that lies dormient in the Earth into a devouring flame.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

reeks

（ present singular third-person ）

reeking

（ participle present ）

reeked

（ participle past ）

reeked

（ past ）

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