stinkverb [ I ]
uk/stɪŋk/us/stɪŋk/stank or US and Australian English also stunk, stunk informalstink verb [ I ] (SMELL)
to smell very unpleasant:
Your feet stink!
The morning after the party, the whole house stank of beer and cigarettes.
He hadn't showered for over a week and stank to high heaven (= a lot).
The woman next to me sprayed on some perfume and stank out the whole place (= filled it with an unpleasant smell).
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Smells & smelling
- acrid
- aroma
- beery
- bouquet
- cheesy
- foetid
- fragrance
- frowsty
- odour
- putrid
- scratch-and-sniff
- smell somewhere out
- smell sth/sb out
- sniff sth/sb out
- sour
- stagnant
- stench
- stinky
- waft
- woody
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stink verb [ I ] (BE BAD)
to be extremely bad or unpleasant:
I think her whole attitude stinks.
His acting stinks but he looks good, so he's offered lots of movie roles.
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Serious and unpleasant
- abominable
- abysmal
- apocalyptic
- appalling
- awfully
- belief
- ghastly
- grim
- grisly
- grotesque
- gruesome
- hate
- noxious
- repulsive
- revolting
- rotten
- shitty
- shocking
- stinking
- wretched
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stinknoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/stɪŋk/us/stɪŋk/informala strong unpleasant smell:
The stink of rotting seaweed was strong along the seashore.
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Smells & smelling
- acrid
- aroma
- beery
- bouquet
- cheesy
- foetid
- fragrance
- frowsty
- odour
- putrid
- scratch-and-sniff
- smell somewhere out
- smell sth/sb out
- sniff sth/sb out
- sour
- stagnant
- stench
- stinky
- waft
- woody
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Idiom(s)
cause a stink
create/kick up/raise a stink
like stink