Definitions for reek

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reek reek

Spelling: [reek]

IPA: /rik/

Reek is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in reek (eekr).

Definitions for reek

noun

1. a strong, unpleasant smell.
2. vapor or steam.

verb (used with object)

1. to give off; emit; exude.
2. to expose to or treat with smoke.

verb (used without object)

1. to smell strongly and unpleasantly.
2. to be strongly pervaded with something unpleasant or offensive.
3. to give off steam, smoke, etc.
4. to be wet with sweat, blood, etc.

Origin of reek

before 900; (noun) Middle English rek(e), Old English rēc smoke; cognate with German rauch, Dutch rook, Old Norse reykr; (v.) Middle English reken to smoke, steam, Old English rēocan

Examples for reek

The particulars of this case, in fact, reek with the stench of crony capitalism.

The reek of spirits, the greasy rancid steam of food got Razumov by the throat.

Involuntarily I turned my head away at the reek of his breath.

Peoples minds in the houses are like the houses: they reek with propriety.

And hipsters and hippies now reek of old-school, kneejerk attitudes.

Here we are all just ready to drop down, and the critters all in a reek of sweat.

The air, which should have been clean, was filled with the reek of unfamiliar odors.

Macauley's cigars were of a strong brand; the air was blue with their reek.

In later years our lips grow tainted and reek of our passions.

So the air is dense with tobacco smoke and the reek of beer and champagne.