stink out
Britishverb
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to drive out or away by a foul smell
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to cause to stink
the smell of orange peel stinks out the room
Example Sentences
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As a board member, I was there to receive them, hearing their first asides: "Eew! It stinks out here!"
From Salon
He said a few fans “make a big stink out there — a few knuckleheads who wreck it.”
From New York Times
There are, of course, a million techniques for trying to get the stink out.
From Washington Times
Year after year, we hear arguments for taking the stink out of our sulfurous political rhetoric.
From New York Times
Both teams stunk out the joint for most of the 1960s until suddenly they didn’t in 1969, when the National League was divided into East and West divisions.
From New York Times
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