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Verb (usu participle)

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun stink has 1 sense

Verb stink has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

stinkv. i. [AS. stinkan to have a smell (whether good or bad); akin to OHG. stinchan, G. & D. stinken to stink; of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. stökkva to leap, to spring, Goth. stigqan to push, strike, or Gr. rancid. Cf. Stench.].
     To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.  [1913 Webster]
stinkv. t. 
     To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.  [1913 Webster]
stinkn. [AS. stinc.].
     A strong, offensive smell; a disgusting odor; a stench.  [1913 Webster]
Fire stink. See under Fire. -- Stink-fire lance. See under Lance. -- Stink rat (Zoöl.), the musk turtle. [Local, U.S.] -- Stink shad (Zoöl.), the gizzard shad. [Local, U.S.] -- Stink trap, a stench trap. See under Stench.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

stink, v. & n.
--v. (past stank or stunk; past part. stunk)
1 intr. emit a strong offensive smell.
2 tr. (often foll. by out) fill (a place) with a stink.
3 tr. (foll. by out etc.) drive (a person) out etc. by a stink.
4 intr. colloq. be or seem very unpleasant, contemptible, or scandalous.
5 intr. (foll. by of) colloq. have plenty of (esp. money).
--n.
1 a strong or offensive smell; a stench.
2 colloq. a row or fuss (the affair caused quite a stink).

Idiom
like stink colloq. intensely; extremely hard or fast etc. (working like stink). stink bomb a device emitting a stink when exploded.
Etymology
OE stincan ult. f. WG: cf. STENCH

THESAURUS

stink

BO, bad breath, bad smell, be aromatic, be redolent of, body odor, breathe, emit a smell, exhale, fetidity, fetidness, fetor, foul breath, foul odor, frowst, funk, graveolence, halitosis, malodor, mephitis, miasma, nidor, noxious stench, offend the nostrils, offensive odor, reek, reeking, rotten smell, smell, smell bad, smell of, smell to heaven, smell up, stench, stench of decay, stink out, stink up, suck, yield an odor

ROGET THESAURUS

stink

Uncleanness

VB be unclean, become unclean, rot, putrefy, ferment, fester, rankle, reek, stink, mold, molder, go bad, render unclean, dirt, dirty, daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear, smirch, begrease, dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle, spatter, slubber, besmear, bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul, splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven, corrupt, cover with dust, drabble in the mud, roil, wallow in the mire, slobber, slabber.

Fetor

N fetor, bad, smell, bad odor, stench, stink, foul odor, malodor, empyreuma, mustiness, rancidity, foulness, stoat, polecat, skunk, assafoetida, fungus, garlic, stinkpot, fitchet, fitchew, fourmart, peccary, acridity, fetid, strong-smelling, high, bad, strong, fulsome, offensive, noisome, rank, rancid, reasty, tainted, musty, fusty, frouzy, olid, olidous, nidorous, smelling, stinking, putrid, suffocating, mephitic, empyreumatic.

VB have a bad smell, smell, stink, stink in the nostrils, stink like a polecat, smell strong, smell offensively.

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