smell

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

smells

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

smell

past (v2)

smelled

past participle (v3)

smelled

present participle

smelling

3rd person singular

smells

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.

   • I love the smell of fresh bread.

2. 2.The sense that detects odours.

3. 3.A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.

   • I’m just saying, this has a bad smell to it.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To sense a smell or smells.

   • Smell the milk and tell me whether it's gone off.
   • I can smell fresh bread.

2. 2.Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.

   • The drunkard smelt like a brewery.
   • Praises in an enemy are superfluous, or smell of craft.
   • Ew, this restroom smells (loathsomely).

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