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smell English

Meaning smell meaning

What does smell mean?
Definitions in simple English

smell

To use the nose to sense something. She put her nose near the flowers and breathed in to smell them. She smelled the waste and felt sick. To gently put a substance that people can smell into the air. The flowers smell very good. The waste smells bad.

smell

The way a thing smells; the substance in the air that people can smell. The smell of the flowers is very good.

smell

inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense emit an odor The soup smells good the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form she loved the smell of roses (= olfactory property) any property detected by the olfactory system smell bad He rarely washes, and he smells (= tone, feel, feeling) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people the feel of the city excited him a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting it had the smell of treason the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents the act of perceiving the odor of something (= smell out, sense) become aware of not through the senses but instinctively I sense his hostility i smell trouble smell out corruption (= smack) have an element suggestive (of something) his speeches smacked of racism this passage smells of plagiarism

Synonyms smell synonyms

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Topics smell topics

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Conjugation smell conjugation

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smell · verb

Examples smell examples

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Simple sentences

The bad smell disgusted us.
The smell penetrated through the whole school.
This smell disgusts me.
I breathed the smell of the flowers in the garden.
You smell great.
I can smell flowers.
I don't like the smell of the perfume Mary is wearing today.
Tom could smell gasoline.
He could smell her perfume.
Pigs smell bad, but they have a very good sense of smell.
What does that smell like?
Even the best fish starts to smell after three days.
Never lose sight of the importance of a beautiful sunrise, or watching your kids sleep, or the smell of rain. It's often the small things that really matter in life.
We smell with our noses.
The roses in the garden smell sweet.
Don't you smell something unusual?
I smell something rotten.
Roses smell sweet.
There is nothing I like so much as the smell of roses.
The smell of roses filled the room.
It's quite distinct from the smell of burning.
No sooner had I entered the room than I noticed the smell not only of tobacco but of gas.
The spoiled meat had a nasty smell.
The meat was giving off a terrible smell.
The hair-dressing liquid gave off a strong smell.
He'll be sure to smell a rat if I'm with you.
Chrysanthemums smell sweet.
I smell something burning.
A bad smell permeated the room.
The best fish smell when they are three days old.
The small animal gave off a bad smell.
This gas gives off a bad smell.

Movie subtitles

Vodka doesn't smell.
I smell alcohol on your breath.
The sweet smell of freedom.
The Sweet Smell of Death.
I remember his wife died several years ago so, there is no Mrs Claus. Smell that?
It's the smell of that fried bread.
Safer then one more day with the smell.
And the horrible smell of that awful weed.
And that smell.
It's how you smell.
Because he'd smell it.
Just smell it.
I can smell the ghosts already.
I can smell it.
The choking smell of goat and jasmine.
I smell turkey a-cookin'.
That's all I got was a smell.
You can smell the desert tonight.
Locking me in my room. And the horrible smell of that awful weed.
You know, I still smell of mothballs.
Honey bees buzzing in the clover. And the smell of new-mown hay in the air.
You even smell good.
Oh, smell them!
Oh, smell that.
Oh, smell this grass.
WHAT DOES THAT SMELL LIKE TO YOU?
Oh, I make my own candles so rooms smell like me even when I'm not in them.
Smell, smell.
And from the smell of it, she must have been a long time getting up.
Do I smell cigarette smoke?
You smell funny.
You smell of liquor!
Do you smell it?

News and current affairs

If it is legislation rather than a clause in a union contract that regulates health and safety conditions in the workplace, a factory's air will smell just as sweet.
But does the uncertainty now circling Blair like a vulture now smell the appetizingly foul scent of a lie?
Consider, for example, the sense of smell.
If we model smell on local terms, we can trace how nasal neurons interact with scent particles, sending signals through a network of other neurons to the brain.
Sensory neurons die a programmed death; you literally have a new sense of smell every month.
This is becoming particularly relevant today, as the smell of war hangs over Iran.
There is rubble and the gut-wrenching smell of decaying corpses.
None of these countries needs NATO, but the smell of PATO, CENTO, SEATO, and other long forgotten pacts and pseudo pacts is again in the air.
We just have to go smell the salty spray.
There is rubble and the gut-wrenching smell of decaying corpses. The rats have it good; the one I accidentally stepped upon was already fat.

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