reek
verb/riːk/
Frequency rank: #16,333 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
to smell strongly and unpleasantly
Example sentence
His jacket seemed to reek of cigarette smoke after the long night out.
Synonyms & related words
More words in ranks 16,301–16,400
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