"stink out" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: stinks out [present, singular, third-person], stinking out [participle, present], stank out [past], stunk out [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|stink<,,stank,stunk> out}} stink out (third-person singular simple present stinks out, present participle stinking out, simple past stank out, past participle stunk out)
  1. (transitive, informal) To cause to stink; to fill with stench. Tags: informal, transitive Related terms: stink up
    Sense id: en-stink_out-en-verb-exw~LQah Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "out", Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 25 32 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "out": 73 12 15 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 68 15 17 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 82 7 11
  2. (transitive, figurative, informal) To perform very badly in (a place). Tags: figuratively, informal, transitive
    Sense id: en-stink_out-en-verb-8QOMvDt2
  3. (transitive, informal) To drive away from a place by a stink. Tags: informal, transitive
    Sense id: en-stink_out-en-verb-R1FxApX9

Inflected forms

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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stank out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stunk out",
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        "participle",
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    }
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          "_dis": "82 7 11",
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        }
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        {
          "text": "The broccoli really stank out the refrigerator.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:",
          "text": "“Dere ya go. Bung it in ’ere, quick. Before it stinks de whole flat out.”\nZoe almost gasped at the unfairness of what the woman had just said. It was her fat stepmother’s prawn-cocktail-crisp breath that stank the place out! Her breath could strip paint. It could shear the feathers off a bird and make it bald.",
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        "To cause to stink; to fill with stench."
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        [
          "stench",
          "stench"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, informal) To cause to stink; to fill with stench."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "58 2 40",
          "word": "stink up"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "transitive"
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    },
    {
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      "glosses": [
        "To perform very badly in (a place)."
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      "id": "en-stink_out-en-verb-8QOMvDt2",
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        "(transitive, figurative, informal) To perform very badly in (a place)."
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          "ref": "1985 January 3, “Zoning Could Protect Pender”, in Star-News, Wilmington, NC:",
          "text": "They could build a fertilizer factory and stink you out.",
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        }
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        "To drive away from a place by a stink."
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        "(transitive, informal) To drive away from a place by a stink."
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        "informal",
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    {
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    },
    {
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      "tags": [
        "participle",
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    },
    {
      "form": "stank out",
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    }
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          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:",
          "text": "“Dere ya go. Bung it in ’ere, quick. Before it stinks de whole flat out.”\nZoe almost gasped at the unfairness of what the woman had just said. It was her fat stepmother’s prawn-cocktail-crisp breath that stank the place out! Her breath could strip paint. It could shear the feathers off a bird and make it bald.",
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        }
      ],
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        "To cause to stink; to fill with stench."
      ],
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          "stink",
          "stink"
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        [
          "stench",
          "stench"
        ]
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        "(transitive, informal) To cause to stink; to fill with stench."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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        "English transitive verbs"
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        "To perform very badly in (a place)."
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        "(transitive, figurative, informal) To perform very badly in (a place)."
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        "figuratively",
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          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "To drive away from a place by a stink."
      ],
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        [
          "stink",
          "stink"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, informal) To drive away from a place by a stink."
      ],
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        "informal",
        "transitive"
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