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Is reek a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (Scotland) Vapour; steam; smoke; fume.Examples: "Thou mightst as well say, I loue to walke by the Counter-gate, which is as hatefull to me, as the reeke of a Lime-kill."; "1768, Alexander Ross (poet), "Helenore; or, the fortunate Shepherdess": a Poem in the Broad Scoth Dialect Now, by this time, the sun begins to leam, And lit the hill-heads with his morning beam; And birds, and beasts, and folk to be a-steer, And clouds o’ reek frae lum heads to appear."; "The blue reeks of smoke from the cottages gave the whole widespread landscape an air of settled order and homely comfort."Scotlandcountableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.Examples: "You reek of perfume."; "Your fridge reeks of egg."intransitive
2. (intransitive, figuratively) To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.Examples: "The boss appointing his nephew as a director reeks of nepotism."figurativelyintransitive
3. (archaic, intransitive) To be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.archaicintransitive
4. (archaic, intransitive) To emit smoke or vapour; to steam.Examples: "[…] innumerable Legions of his Angels of Light, the warm gleames of whose presence is able to make the Mountains to reek and smoak, and to awake that fiery principle that lies dormient in the Earth into a devouring flame."archaicintransitive
5. (transitive, rare) To cause (something) to smell.Examples: "The slaughter of lambs in offering reeked the fore-courts of the Temple."; "[I]f we get caught we're for the gibbet and the chains. Our flesh will reek the wind."raretransitive
6. (now rare, of rain or snow) To fall in such a way (e.g. particularly finely or heavily) as to resemble smoke.Examples: "... the snow still darkens the air, and reeks along the curling wreaths, as if each were a furnace."; "the sun, which had been occasionally peeping from amidst the windy, rain-reeking clouds, was getting ominously low. One part, however, of the man's prophecy was not borne out - the weather steadily improved and the wind dropped."; "Great Serpents, like undulating clouds, / Crested, rain-reeking. Their bellies blacken the sky; / Their fierce rains flood earth's hill-rimmed vale; / Their drumming is from mountain to mountain; / From horizon to horizon is their thunder."archaic
noun (English)
1. (Ireland) A hill; a mountain.Ireland
Definition source: Wiktionary