stink out

verb

To cause to stink; to fill with stench.

“The broccoli really stank out the refrigerator.”

Meanings

verbstink out (third-person singular simple present stinks out, present participle stinking out, simple past stank out, past participle stunk out)

present singular third person stinks out · participle present stinking out · past stank out · participle past stunk out

  1. informaltransitiveTo cause to stink; to fill with stench.

    The broccoli really stank out the refrigerator.

    1 more example

    “Dere ya go. Bung it in ’ere, quick. Before it stinks de whole flat out.” Zoe almost gasped at the unfairness of what the woman had just said. It was her fat stepmother’s prawn-cocktail-crisp breath that stank the place out! Her breath could strip paint. It could shear the feathers off a bird and make it bald.

    2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN
  2. figurativelyinformaltransitiveTo perform very badly in (a place).
  3. informaltransitiveTo drive away from a place by a stink.

    They could build a fertilizer factory and stink you out.

    1985 January 3, “Zoning Could Protect Pender”, in Star-News, Wilmington, NC

Synonyms & antonyms

verbcause to smell bad; fill with a bad smell

Broader
odorizeodourisescent

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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