stink1 verbstink2 noun
stinkstink1 /stɪŋk/ ●●○ verb (past tense stank /stæŋk/, past participle stunk /stʌŋk/) [intransitive] 
WORD ORIGINstink1
Origin:
Old English stincanVERB TABLE
stink
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | stink |
| he, she, it | stinks | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | stank, stunk |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have stunk |
| he, she, it | has stunk | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had stunk |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will stink |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have stunk |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am stinking |
| he, she, it | is stinking | |
| you, we, they | are stinking | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was stinking |
| you, we, they | were stinking | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been stinking |
| he, she, it | has been stinking | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been stinking |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be stinking |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been stinking |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Her room is filthy, and it stinks.
- His clothes stank of cigarette smoke.
- How can you eat that cheese? It stinks.
- You boys stink to high heaven - go inside and take a shower.
- Your shoes stink.
- Boys with wicker baskets full of bricks and masonry hurry past; the streets stink and run with mud and excrement.
- But area teenagers said Wednesday that the provisions stink.
- But the move, though it stinks, was legal.
- Conveyancing is a reactionary adversarial system-and in the main it stinks.
- The fish Cassius returned home with lay in a plastic basin in the kitchen, spoiled and stinking.
- The woman stank of neglect, her clothes were torn and filthy, and tears had made twin furrows down her face.
Longman Language Activatorto have a bad smell
· The hut was dark and smelly.· Don't leave your smelly sneakers lying around the living room.· The lake was rapidly turning brown and smelly from the factory wastes.
to have an unpleasant smell: · Does my breath smell?· We need to clean the cat's litter box - it's starting to smell.smell bad/awful/terrible/disgusting: · Not only does he smell bad - he's mean and ugly too.· Many people like the taste of jackfruit, but it smells terrible.
to have a strong and unpleasant smell: · Her room is filthy, and it stinks.· How can you eat that cheese? It stinks.stink of: · His clothes stank of cigarette smoke.stink to high heaven: · You boys stink to high heaven - go inside and take a shower.
to have a very strong smell of something unpleasant: · Get that dog out of here - he reeks.reek of: · He came running into the house, reeking of sweat.· The tiny office reeked of onions and cigarette smoke.· Where have you been - you reek of alcohol?
having a very strong unpleasant smell: · The yards were full of stinking garbage cans, and untidy lines of washing.· He pointed to the stinking hole that we were to use as a toilet.
British /stink the place up American informal to make a whole room smell bad: · You're not bringing that cat in here - it'll stink the place out.· She made fish for dinner and stunk the place up.
things such as books, clothes, or rooms that are musty have a smell that is old and not fresh, especially because they have not been used or been in fresh air for a long time: · The hotel room was dark and musty.· The library was full of musty old books which no one wanted to read.
having a smell that is not fresh, especially because you can still smell something such as old cigarette smoke or old cooking smells: · She noticed the stale smell of drink on his breath.· The air in the office was stale and heavy.· It was cold outside and the smell of stale tobacco clung to their winter coats.
having a sharp, unpleasant smell, especially one that hurts your nose: · The chemical has an acrid smell.· When I opened the door, acrid white smoke came billowing out.· The air was stale and acrid, and a cluster of black flies hovered over the bed.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
The toilets stank to high heaven (=stank very much).COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
The toilets stank to high heaven (=stank very much). disapproving (=very rich)· She was obviously stinking rich.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· It stank to high heaven of salt-fish and shit, the aforementioned by far the more offensive.· Their office layout stank to high-tech heaven.
· The place stank like a sewer!· The place stank of cockroach repellant and dead cigarettes.· The whole place stank of money: much more money than the singer could have earned at the Kitty Kat Club.· I came downstairs and the place stank of unwashed bodies mixed with the smells of kippers being grilled and sausages fried.· The place stank of paraffin and turpentine and dry rot.· The place stank of scorched hair and deodorant.· Like any over-populated, under-capitalised place, it could stink of smoke and shit and sick and sleep.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1to have a strong and very unpleasant smell: - It's financial clout that counts or, failing that, kicking up a stink.
- It's for your protection, so that you have the union behind you if Mellowes kicks up a stink.
- It might be partly because I didn't kick up a fuss when I lost the captaincy.
- It will still contain plenty of business and mortgage borrowers to kick up a stink about base rates.
- Yet when pedestrianisation was first announced the city's shopkeepers, taxi drivers and disabled groups kicked up a fuss.
It stinks in here!stink of His breath stank of alcohol. The toilets stank to high heaven (=stank very much).2spoken used to say that something is bad, unfair, dishonest etc: Don’t eat there – the food stinks! The whole justice system stinks.stink something ↔ out British English, stink something ↔ up American English phrasal verb to fill a place with a very unpleasant smell: Those onions are stinking the whole house out.stink1 verbstink2 noun
stinkstink2 noun [countable usually singular] 1a very bad smell SYN stenchstink of the stink of burning rubber► see thesaurus at smell2cause/kick up/make etc a stink to complain very strongly: Activists have raised a stink about the shipments of nuclear waste.3work/run/go like stink British English old-fashioned to work etc as fast and as well as you can: We had to work like stink to meet the deadline.