Meanings
present singular third person stinks up · participle present stinking up · past stank up · participle past stunk up
- informaltransitiveTo cause to stink.
The broccoli really stank up the refrigerator.
1 more example
He was constructing a cigarette from newspaper and string. “[…]Don’t light that thing, Dill, you’ll stink up this whole end of town.”
1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC - figurativelyinformaltransitiveTo perform very badly in (a place).
That's what the Bengals did again Sunday, when, in Wilkinson's words, they "stunk up the joint" in a 31-14 loss to the New York Jets at Cinergy Field.
1997 September 29, “BENGALS `STUNK UP THE JOINT'”, in Dayton Daily News
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Czech zasmradit
- zasmraditto cause to stink
French empester, empuantir
- empesterto cause to stink
- empuantirto cause to stink
German vermiefen, verpesten
- vermiefento cause to stink
- verpestento cause to stink
- verstänkernto cause to stink
- verstinkento cause to stink
- abstinkento perform very badly
Polish zasmradzać, zasmrodzić
- zasmradzaćto cause to stink
- zasmrodzićto cause to stink
- prezentować się źleto perform very badly
- zaprezentować się źleto perform very badly
Cite this entry
stink up. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stink%20up
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