REEKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reeking mean? 

• REEKING (adjective)
  The adjective REEKING has 2 senses:

1. wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears

2. giving off a strong unpleasant smell

  Familiarity information: REEKING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REEKING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears

Synonyms:

reeking; watery

Context example:

wiped his reeking neck

Similar:

wet (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Giving off a strong unpleasant smell

Similar:

ill-smelling; malodorous; malodourous; stinky; unpleasant-smelling (having an unpleasant smell)

 Context examples 

And oh, my God, my God, pity me! He placed his reeking lips upon my throat!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

My father was sitting with staring eyes, and his forgotten pipe reeking in his hand.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A crowd of white-faced sewers and pages swarmed at their heels, those behind pushing forwards, while the foremost shrank back from the fierce faces and reeking weapons of the adventurers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had obtained a large ordnance map of the neighbourhood, and this he brought into my room, where he laid it out on the bed, and, having balanced the lamp in the middle of it, he began to smoke over it, and occasionally to point out objects of interest with the reeking amber of his pipe.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ships are sent with the first opportunity; the natives driven out or destroyed; their princes tortured to discover their gold; a free license given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants: and this execrable crew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilize an idolatrous and barbarous people!

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I remember that he swayed his reeking pipe in the earnestness of his prayer, so that I was half tears and half smiles as I watched him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From dawn to sundown the long train wound through the pass, their breath reeking up upon the frosty air like the steam from a cauldron.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Cast on another culpon, John, and stir the broth with thy sword-sheath,” growled Johnston, looking anxiously for the twentieth time at the reeking pot.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The narrow pass was blocked by huge stones littered in wild confusion over each other, with the blue choking smoke reeking up through the crevices.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Alleyne could see the smoke of their forges reeking up in the clear morning air.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)