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US
/ˈɹikɪŋ/
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[ UK /ɹˈiːkɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈiːkɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears
wiped his reeking neck - giving off a strong unpleasant smell
How To Use reeking In A Sentence
- If they believe in anything at all, it is this: They view us as a reeking collection of wretched, baseborn rabble, who are, on an individual level, a few billion neurons short of being governable by honest means. Within the Architecture of Denial and Duplicity: The Democratic Party and the Infantile Omnipotence of The Ruling Class
- At those words a doctor arrived, clad in the long leather coat and bird-mask of the Plague Years, reeking of pox and fire though London had known neither in more than a lifetime.
- For the eleven-shilling oilskins I was referred to a villainous den in a back street, which the shopman said they always recommended, and where a dirty and bejewelled Hebrew chaffered with me (beginning at 18s.) over two reeking orange slabs distantly resembling moieties of the human figure. The Riddle of the Sands
- Still in her nightclothes, reeking of smoke, and gripping the smoldering diary, Cat rose from her seat to follow Jack. Earl of Durkness
- A gruff officer was waiting for him, reeking of coffee, the edge of his brown mustache darkened by a recent beverage. DO NO HARM
- With the air reeking of smoke, the firefighters got to work in dousing the flames as the flashing blue light of the fire engine lit the neighbourhood.
- The stag is taken to the kennel and skinned, and all the meat cut into small pieces and put again into the hide, and the hounds then, in this cold-blooded way, rush at a mess, instead of the whole pack, in a state of excitement, falling on the hunted animal reeking with fatigue. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
- Frist smiled and spoke unremarkably from the lectern, reeking of silverback testosterone. †Think Progress » ThinkFast: May 24, 2006
- A gruff officer was waiting for him, reeking of coffee, the edge of his brown mustache darkened by a recent beverage. DO NO HARM
- As women peruse this period propaganda, we see the female body morph into a reeking vessel of shame that must be sterilized, aromatized, and exorcized in order to be considered attractive again. Caroline Hagood: Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation
