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Reeking

adjective

Wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears. Synonym: watery.

Giving off a strong unpleasant smell.

Reek

verb

(past & past part. reeked; pres. part. reeking)

Have an element suggestive (of something). Synonyms: smack, smell. "This passage smells of plagiarism"

Smell badly and offensively. Synonym: stink.

Be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face. Synonym: fume.

Give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc..

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"Reeking" Quotes from Famous Books

... in my book on the Seonee District described the little colonies in the heart of the Bison jungles. Clusters of huts imbedded in tangled masses of foliage, surrounded by an atmosphere reeking with the effluvia of decaying vegetation, where, unheedful of the great outer world beyond their sylvan limits, the Gonds pass year after year ...

— Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon • Robert A. Sterndale

... of five or six leagues. I was amazed, on entering this quiet town, to see all the inhabitants in commotion. They were pouring from their houses in crowds, towards the gate of a small inn, immediately before which two covered vans were drawn up. Their horses still in harness, and reeking from fatigue and heat, showed that the cortege had only just arrived. I stopped for a moment to learn the cause of the tumult, but could gain little information from the curious mob as they rushed by, heedless ...

— Manon Lescaut • Abbe Prevost

... in quietly. Lorand reached a grassy mound, shaded by juniper bushes. This spot he chose for his night-camp in preference to the wine-reeking, stenching rooms of the way-side inns. Putting on his boots, he drew from his wallet some bread and bacon, and commenced eating. He found it good: he was hungry ...

— Debts of Honor • Maurus Jokai

... and more permanent than it is to-day."[912] "Mere legal matrimony and familism could not survive the communalisation of property, and it may be well so. Marriage as we know it is merely one of the many unwholesome fungi that grow out of the reeking, rotting corpus of private property, and it would not be difficult to conceive of a sexual order infinitely ...

— British Socialism - An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals • J. Ellis Barker

... debauchery. The discordant noise of the two or three instruments which formed the orchestra struck gloom to the soul and added to the horrors of the cavern. The air was dense with the fumes of bad tobacco, and vapours reeking of beer and garlic issued from every mouth. The company consisted of sailors, men of the lowest-class, and a number of vile women. The sailors and the dregs of the people thought this den a garden of delight, and considered its pleasures compensation for the toils of the sea and the miseries ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

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