(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
To ~ of something, usually something unpleasant, means to smell very strongly of it.
Your breath ~s of stale cigar smoke...
The entire house ~ed for a long time.
= stink
VERB: V of n, V
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Reek is also a noun.
He smelt the ~ of whisky.
N-SING: usu N of n
2.
If you say that something ~s 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 ~s of hypocrisy.
VERB: V of n disapproval