'Reeking' definitions:
Definition of 'reeking'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears; "wiped his reeking neck" [syn: reeking, watery]
adjective
Giving off a strong unpleasant smell
Definition of 'Reeking'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Few chimneys reeking you shall espy. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- I found me laid In balmy sweat, which with his beams the sun Soon dried, and on the reeking moisture fed. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- The coffee rooms reeked with tobacco. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'reeking'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ablaze,
- aerial,
- aerodynamic,
- aerostatic,
- aery,
- afire,
- aflame,
- aflicker,
- aglow,
- airy,
- alight,
- ardent,
- bad,
- bad breath,
- bad smell,
- bad-smelling,
- blazing,
- BO,
- body odor,
- burning,
- candent,
- candescent,
- comburent,
- conflagrant,
- deafening,
- ethereal,
- fecal,
- fetid,
- fetidity,
- fetidness,
- fetor,
- flagrant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flickering,
- foul,
- foul breath,
- foul odor,
- frowst,
- frowsty,
- frowy,
- frowzy,
- fulsome,
- fuming,
- fumy,
- funky,
- fusty,
- gamy,
- gaseous,
- gasified,
- gasiform,
- gaslike,
- gassy,
- glowing,
- graveolence,
- graveolent,
- guttering,
- halitosis,
- high,
- ignescent,
- ignited,
- ill-smelling,
- in a blaze,
- in a glow,
- in flames,
- incandescent,
- inflamed,
- intense,
- kindled,
- live,
- living,
- loud,
- malodor,
- malodorous,
- mephitic,
- mephitis,
- miasma,
- miasmal,
- miasmatic,
- miasmic,
- mildewed,
- mildewy,
- moldy,
- musty,
- nidor,
- nidorous,
- noisome,
- nose-piercing,
- noxious,
- noxious stench,
- odorous,
- offensive,
- offensive odor,
- olid,
- on fire,
- oxyacetylene,
- oxygenous,
- ozonic,
- penetrating,
- piercing,
- pneumatic,
- pungent,
- putrid,
- rancid,
- rank,
- reasty,
- reasy,
- reechy,
- reek,
- reeky,
- repulsive,
- rotten,
- rotten smell,
- scintillant,
- scintillating,
- sharp,
- smellful,
- smelling,
- smelly,
- smoking,
- smoky,
- smoldering,
- sparking,
- steaming,
- steamy,
- stench,
- stench of decay,
- stenchy,
- stink,
- stinking,
- strong,
- strong-scented,
- strong-smelling,
- stuffy,
- suffocating,
- sulfurous,
- thundering,
- unextinguished,
- unquenched,
- vaporing,
- vaporish,
- vaporlike,
- vaporous,
- vapory,
- vile