reek
reek is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A rick. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
- 2.Vapor; steam; smoke; fume. As hateful to me as the reek of a limekiln. Shak.
- 3.To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale. Few chimneys reeking you shall espy. Spenser. I found me laid In balmy sweat, which with his beams the sun Soon dried, and on the reeking moisture fed. Milton. The coffee rooms reeked with tobacco. Macualay.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- act
- acute
- add
- aeration
- aerial
- aerification
- aeriform
- aerodynamics
- aerostatics
- affuse
- affusion
- air
- airy
- alkali
- ammonia
- ammoniacal
- animal
- aqua
- aquatic
- aqueous
- are
- balneal
- balneation
- bath
- bathe
- bay
- bladder
- bloodhound
- boil
- boiling
- bubble
- bubbly
- chloride
- cloud
- cohobate
- cohobation
- cupellation
- dabble
- deluge
- diffuse
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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