Make it reek
To smell up a place is to fill it with an unpleasant odor: Don't smell up the bathroom.
The phrase emphasizes that the smell spreads and lingers, affecting the whole space.
Nearly always negative—you smell up a room with garbage or burned food, not with fresh cookies.
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Make it reek
To smell up a place is to fill it with an unpleasant odor: Don't smell up the bathroom.
The phrase emphasizes that the smell spreads and lingers, affecting the whole space.
Nearly always negative—you smell up a room with garbage or burned food, not with fresh cookies.
1. odor — stink, Offensive smell; reek (Emit strong odor); foul (Offensive or illegal); fetid (Having foul odor); malodorous · putrid · rank · musty · funky · pungent · acrid · noisome · offensive · skunky
ODOR QUALITYsmell up ≠ freshen To restore liveliness; freshen up · deodorize · air out · perfume · scent
smell, smells, smelled, smelling, smelly, smellier, smelliest, smelliness, upping
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