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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

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