Verbs have past tense forms and past participle forms. 

Stink - simple present 
Stank - simple past
Stunk - past participle  (used with a helping verb like "have" or "had". 

Skunks stink. 
Pepe le Pew stank yesterday.
Pepe le Pew had stunk up the basement. 

When I got closer, it stank even worse! 😶

Stunk, stank was stinking, which is grammatically correct

what is the correct word when used in the past tense. Stink.  When I got closer it .....


stank will be the correct option for the above sentence 

 The correct answer is; -When I got closer it stank.
Stank and stunk are both past tense conjugations of stink, but they are different tenses. Stank is the simple past tense form.
Stunk is a past participle.

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