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Verb: stink (stank,stunk)  stingk
  1. Be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance
    "This term paper stinks!"
     
  2. Smell badly and offensively
    "The building stinks of smoke"
    - reek
Noun: stink  stingk
  1. A distinctive odour that is offensively unpleasant
    - malodor [US], malodour [Brit, Cdn], stench, reek, fetor, foetor [Brit], mephitis

Derived forms: stunk, stinks, stank, stinking

See also: stink up, stinker, stinky

Type of: be, odor [US], odour [Brit, Cdn], olfactory perception, olfactory sensation, smell

Encyclopedia: Stink