Crossword-Solution: REEK 4 letters, 248 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Reek n. A rick.
Reek n. Vapor; steam; smoke; fume.
Reek v. i. To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be
full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale.

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REEK anagram EKER, KERE, REKE

We have 248 clues for the answer “REEK”

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Aggravate a sense 1 answer
Assault the nose 1 answer
Assault the nostrils 1 answer
Badly need a bath 1 answer
Be a real stinker 1 answer
Be a stinker 1 answer
Be completely unpleasant 1 answer
Be extremely disagreeable 1 answer
Be foul 1 answer
Be hard on the nose 1 answer
Be harsh on the nose 1 answer
Be malodorous 1 answer
Be mephitic 1 answer
Be offensive 1 answer
Be offensive, in a way 1 answer
Be permeated with fumes. 1 answer
Be pungent 1 answer
Be really ripe 1 answer
Be tough on the nose 1 answer
Carry a stench 1 answer
Cause a stench 1 answer
Cause a stink? 1 answer
Cause nose-holding 1 answer
Cause olfactory offense 1 answer
Cause revulsion, in a way 1 answer
Cause serious nose-wrinkling 1 answer
Cause some nose-holding 1 answer
Cause wrinkled noses, perhaps 1 answer
Cause wrinkles, in a way 1 answer
Clearly need a shower 1 answer
Desperately need a bath 1 answer
Do more than just smell 1 answer
Elicit a wrinkled nose 1 answer
Elicit a wrinkled nose, maybe 1 answer
Emanation from a stogie 1 answer
Strong, unpleasant odor 1 answer
Emit a foul stench 1 answer
Emit a stench 1 answer
Emit effluvium 1 answer
Emit fumes 1 answer
Emit hydrogen sulfide, say 1 answer
Emit odors. 1 answer
Emit offensive fumes 1 answer
Excel's opposite, colloquially 1 answer
Exude a stench 1 answer
Exude fumes 1 answer
Exude, as fumes. 1 answer
Give a strong impression (of) 1 answer
Give off a rancid odor 1 answer
Give off a stink 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with REEK (5)

Through the reek I could see the people who had been with me in the river scrambling out of the water through the reeds, like little frogs hurrying through grass from the advance of a man, or running to and fro in utter dismay on the towing path.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992
The first faint winter’s dawn was beginning to appear, and we could dimly see the occasional figure of an early workman as he passed us, blurred and indistinct in the opalescent London reek.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1994
The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Nor rot nor reek did they: The look with which they looked on me Had never passed away.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2006
The first faint winter's dawn was beginning to appear, and we could dimly see the occasional figure of an early workman as he passed us, blurred and indistinct in the opalescent London reek.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 2008
Seest how the chariots in mad rivalry Poured from the barrier grip the course and go, When youthful hope is highest, and every heart Drained with each wild pulsation? How they ply The circling lash, and reaching forward let The reins hang free! Swift spins the glowing wheel; And now they stoop, and now erect in air Seem borne through space and towering to the sky: No stop, no stay; the dun sand whirls aloft; They reek with foam-flakes and pursuing breath; So sweet is fame, so prized the victor's palm.
The Georgics Virgil 2008

Quotes with REEK (3)

Myrnin, who hadn't said much, suddenly reached out and wrapped his arms around her. She stiffened, shocked, and for a panicked second wondered whether he'd suddenly decided to snack on her neck... but it was just a hug. His body felt cold against hers, and way too close, but then he let go and stepped back. "You've done very well. I'm extremely proud of you," he said. There was a touch of color high in his pale cheeks. "Do go home now. And shower. You reek like the dead." Whi…
Rachel Caine Ghost Town
He stole glances at the heathen faces of Bodien and Gaylord, the suffering, yet oddly consoled, eyes and mouth of Basellecci, noting the brave enthusiasm of men who had never dreamed of anything very definite, and it occurred to him through the reek of his person that there was only one hope for him, and for all people who had lost, through intelligence, the hope of immortality. "We must love and delight in each other and in ourselves!" he cried.
Edward Lewis Wallant
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 517 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).