stink

Object

• place: Can't have you stinking the place out, can we?

Converse of object

• think: About the same proportion thinks the honors system stinks.
• cause: Don't succumb to the scourge Of the sexual urge, Or you'll cause a most terrible stink!
• raise: I would march down and raise a stink if my daughter was treated in such a manner.
• create: They create a stink that most of us don't want to inhale.

Adjective modifier

• whole: The whole thing stinks of a combined effort to thwart us at every turn.
• big: There's always the people who leave a big stink behind them... 4. Have you ever had a bad online transaction?

Modifies a noun

• bomb: Giant stink bomb Last week, police arrested nine men in south east England.

Modifying Another Word

• absolutely: And there are loads of folk who think the Italian let-off absolutely stinks.
• badly: To me they are both the same, and stink just as badly.
• really: There was me standing on a rotten wooden platform 20 ft above a concrete floor sweeping up bird crap and really stinking wet grain.
• always: It's hard to understand him sometimes and he always stinks like rotten cheese.
• still: The ceiling was still peeling, the walls were still greasy and it still stank of urine.
• much: If the process stinks so much as you say, then why bother?

Adjective complement

• rich: These aspirations will include things like having a family, becoming stinking rich, or reaching the top with a particular type of career.

Preposition: of

• urine: I haven't had a wash for weeks and I stink of rat urine.
• smoke: I can't express how much I hate coming in from a night on the tiles, stinking of smoke.

Noun used with modifier

• thing: The whole thing stinks of a combined effort to thwart us at every turn.