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stink up en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (informal, transitive) To cause to stink.
    • 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:
    • The broccoli really stank up the refrigerator.
  2. (figuratively, informal, transitive) To 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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
stinks up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
stank up Tense=Past lexicographic
stunk up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
stinking up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

stink out

Translations (13)

pl prezentować się źle (to perform very badly) · de abstinken (to perform very badly) · fr empuantir (to cause to stink) · pl zaprezentować się źle (to perform very badly) · de verpesten (to cause to stink) · cs zasmradit (to cause to stink) · izh haisottaa (to cause to stink) · pl zasmrodzić (to cause to stink) · de vermiefen (to cause to stink) · de verstänkern (to cause to stink) · de verstinken (to cause to stink) · fr empester (to cause to stink) · pl zasmradzać (to cause to stink)