Reak vs. Reek

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  • Reak (noun)

    A prank.

  • Reak (noun)

    A rush.

  • Reek (noun)

    A strong unpleasant smell.

  • Reek (noun)

    Vapour; steam; smoke; fume.

  • Reek (noun)

    A hill; a mountain.

  • Reek (verb)

    To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.

    “You reek of perfume.”

    “Your fridge reeks of egg.”

  • Reek (verb)

    To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.

    “The boss appointing his nephew as a director reeks of nepotism.”

  • Reek (verb)

    To be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.

  • Reek (verb)

    To emit smoke or vapour; to steam.

Wiktionary
  • Reak (noun)

    A prank; a playful or capricious trick, a riotous practice. Chiefly in plural Compare “rex”.

  • Reek (verb)

    smell strongly and unpleasantly; stink

    “the yard reeked of wet straw and horse manure”

  • Reek (verb)

    be suggestive of something unpleasant or undesirable

    “the speeches reeked of anti-Semitism”

  • Reek (verb)

    give off smoke, steam, or fumes

    “while temples crash, and towers in ashes reek”

  • Reek (noun)

    a foul smell

    “the reek of cattle dung”

  • Reek (noun)

    smoke

    “he recovered himself and turned to peer through the reek”

Oxford Dictionary

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