stink
Base form
stink
/stɪŋk/
Past simple
stank / stunk
/stæŋk/ /stʌŋk/
Past participle
stunk
/stʌŋk/
MeaningC1
to have a very bad smell
to stink to high heaven
In use
- After a modal verb · Form 1This cheese will stink if you leave it out.
- Question · Form 1Why does the fridge stink of fish?
- Past simple · Form 2Yesterday the whole kitchen stank of burnt toast.
- Past simple · Form 2After the match last week, our changing room stank.
- Present perfect · Form 3The bins have stunk all week in this heat.
- Past perfect · Form 3The flat had stunk of smoke for months before we moved in.
Watch out
Stank, then stunk, like drank, drunk; stunk is also used as a past. Stinked and stanked are wrong.
Same pattern
A — B — CAll three forms differ
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