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Meaning of stink out | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To cause to stink; to fill with stench.
  2. To perform very badly in (a place).
  3. To drive away from a place by a stink.

Examples

The broccoli really stank out the refrigerator.”
““Dere ya go. Bung it in ’ere, quick. Before it stinks de whole flat out.” Zoe 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.”
They could build a fertilizer factory and stink you out.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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