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Reeking

Reek \Reek\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Reeked (r[=e]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Reeking.] [As. r[=e]can. See Reek vapor.] 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.
--Macaulay.

Wiktionary
reeking
  1. Totally stinking. alt. (present participle of reek English) v

  2. (present participle of reek English)

WordNet
reeking
  1. adj. wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or blood or tears; "wiped his reeking neck" [syn: dripping, watery]

  2. giving off a strong unpleasant smell

Usage examples of "reeking".

The ceiling was studded with hooks, from which were suspended a dozen of his favorite marigolds, huge round explosions of reeking greenery with blossoms the size of my head.

I enjoyed the buffet supper, carefully avoiding the reeking plates of scorched beef served to the elders.

In the streets of New York, hundreds of antidraft rioters were mown down with grapeshot, and the cobbled street before the little magic shop was strewn with reeking dead.

Old engine parts lay in reeking grease next to heaps of moldering popular magazines and spools of blackened telephone wire.

Any other man on the face of Toril might have at least hesitated before jumping into an open grave with two reeking, putrescent, flesh-gorged ghouls.

The reeking undead thing held up a heavy iron ring hung with a dozen or more big keys.

He had no desire to rot for months, or maybe for years, in some reeking Brythunian dungeon.

Miraculously, the roof had not caved in completely, entombing him in these reeking sewers with the lurking horror he had just escaped.

Sharpe said as he backed out of the reeking shadows to draw a breath of fresh air.

The San Isidro was a smoking, blackened wreck, littered with bodies and reeking of blood.

The mist was burning off to show a village smoking with abandoned cooking fires and reeking of blood where the victorious dragoons were remounting their horses to join the pursuit.

The village, left reeking and smoking from the earlier battles fought through its streets, was once again a maelstrom of musket smoke, screams and blood.

He wanted an excuse, any excuse, not to go down that awful slope to a village so reeking with death that the air alone was enough to make a man vomit.

Blind Seer on the stoop, his fur spiked with mire and blood, his entire being reeking of filth.

He tilted his face to the shrouded sky, the flaming buildings, and fought for his share of the reeking air.