transcription, транскрипция: [ ri:k ]
( reeks, reeking, reeked)
1.
To reek of something, usually something unpleasant, means to smell very strongly of it.
Your breath reeks of stale cigar smoke...
The entire house reeked for a long time.
= stink
VERB : V of n , V
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Reek is also a noun.
He smelt the reek of whisky.
N-SING : usu N of n
2.
If you say that something reeks of unpleasant ideas, feelings, or practices, you disapprove of it because it gives a strong impression that it involves those ideas, feelings, or practices.
The whole thing reeks of hypocrisy.
VERB : V of n [ disapproval ]