smell
IPA: smˈɛɫ
noun
- A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
- (physiology) The sense that detects odours.
- A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.
verb
- (transitive) To sense a smell or smells.
- (intransitive, copulative) Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
- (intransitive, without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.
- (intransitive, figurative) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.
- To detect or perceive; often with out.
- (obsolete) To give heed to.
- (transitive) To smell of; to have a smell of
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Examples of "smell" in Sentences
- The smell in the room was intense.
- They have a good sense of smell and binocular vision.
- They are also blind, but have a preternatural sense of smell.
- The sweet fragrance resembles the sweet smell of jasmine flowers.
- The lower pair, aural tentacles, provide the slug's sense of smell.
- Damage to the olfactory bulb results in a loss of the sense of smell.
- By seeing the form and smelling the fragrance, ghosts know the flavor.
- 'Machine olfaction' is the automated simulation of the sense of smell.
- I like the tactile nature of a book, the feel, the look, the smell, etc.
- The man wants to kill and feels nostalgic about the smell of boiling rice.
- Too much riffraff in this mall, the riff raff needs to take showers, baths, the smell is awful.
- * We swap pjs, his are still warm and smell like cigarette smoke mixed with fresh masculine smell*
- The Cat Genie doesn't always get all the solid waste and when it doesn't, the smell is a little annoying when you clean again.
- I can smell a smoker for hundreds of yards and know exactly what the smell is as it hits my nose, I'm sure an old buck does the same.
- Tom- Just went back and read your review of Oud 27 and have put it in my list of 'to smell'..though right now Arabian Oud's King Fahed is what I am dying to smell!
- Your writing might be kinda sweet, delicately nuanced, quite lovely to many, but if it's based on hers all she's gonna smell is the stuff you've done to it that's just plain wrong, far as she's concerned.
- Honestly, the smell is almost intolerable to me - it's very citrusy, but incredibly so, with only 3 flowers (another 12 flower buds are on their way), and the thing wafts at you from a good 6 feet away, plus.
- Among senses, smell was the strongest: smell of hot pine-woods and sweet-fern in the scorching summer noon; of new-mown hay; of ploughed earth; of box hedges; of peaches, lilacs, syringes; of stables, barns, cow-yards; of salt water and low tide on the marshes; nothing came amiss.
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