Meaning

2 senses
  1. (informal, transitive)To cause to stink.

    The broccoli really stank up the refrigerator.

    vermiefen, verpesten, verstänkern

    cause to smell bad; fill with a bad smell

  2. (figuratively, informal, transitive)To perform very badly in (a place).

    abstinken

Examples

2 sentences
  1. John stank the elevator up with his fart.

  2. Vladimir farted and he stank the place up.

Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
to cause to stink:
to perform very badly:

Forms

stinks up, stinking up, stank up, stunk up
Base formstink up · to stink up
3rd person singularstinks up
Present participlestinking up
Past simplestank up
Past participlestunk up

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theystink up
he, she, itstinks up

Past simpleLesson

all personsstank up

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave stunk up
he, she, ithas stunk up

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill stink up

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedstink out

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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