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stink out

verb

  1. to drive out or away by a foul smell
  2. to cause to stink

    the smell of orange peel stinks out the room

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

As a board member, I was there to receive them, hearing their first asides: "Eew! It stinks out here!"

From Salon

He said a few fans “make a big stink out there — a few knuckleheads who wreck it.”

“This freak pukes. I like this shirt, and my mom still can’t get his stink out of the last one.”

There are, of course, a million techniques for trying to get the stink out.

Year after year, we hear arguments for taking the stink out of our sulfurous political rhetoric.

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