stink

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To emit a strong foul odor.
2. v. To be highly offensive or abhorrent.
3. v. To be in extremely bad repute.
4. v. Slang To have something to an extreme or offensive degree: a family that stinks with money; a deed that stinks of treachery.
5. v. Slang To be of an extremely low or bad quality: This job stinks.
6. v. Slang To have the appearance of dishonesty or corruption: Something about his testimony stinks.
7. v. To cause to stink: garbage that stinks up the yard.
8. n. A strong offensive odor; a stench. See Synonyms at stench.
9. n. Slang A scandal or controversy: "the stink over sexual politics in the military” ( David Nyhan).
10. idiom. make Slang To make a great fuss.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To emit a strong offensive smell; send out a disgusting odor; hence, to be in bad odor; have a bad reputation; be regarded with disfavor.
2. To annoy with an offensive smell; affect in any way by an offensive odor.
3. n. A strong offensive smell; a disgusting odor; a stench.
4. n. Hell, regarded as a region of sulphurous smells (or of infamy?).
5. n. A disagreeable exposure.
6. n. Synonyms Stench, etc. See smell.

Wiktionary

1. v. intransitive To have a strong bad smell.
2. v. intransitive, informal To be greatly inferior; to perform badly.
3. v. intransitive To give an impression of dishonesty or untruth.
4. n. A strong bad smell.
5. n. informal A complaint or objection.
6. n. slang chemistry (as a subject taught in school)
7. n. slang, New Zealand A failure or unfortunate event.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.
2. v. To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.
3. n. A strong, offensive smell; a disgusting odor; a stench.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance
2. v. smell badly and offensively
3. n. a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant