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smell
[ smel ]
verb (used with object)
- to perceive the odor or scent of through the nose by means of the olfactory nerves; inhale the odor of:
I smell something burning.
- to test by the sense of smell:
She smelled the meat to see if it was fresh.
- to perceive, detect, or discover by shrewdness or sagacity:
The detective smelled foul play.
verb (used without object)
- to perceive something by its odor or scent.
- to search or investigate (followed by around or about ).
- to give off or have an odor or scent:
Do the yellow roses smell?
- to give out an offensive odor; stink.
- to have a particular odor (followed by of ):
My hands smell of fish.
- to have a trace or suggestion (followed by of ).
- Informal. to be of inferior quality; stink:
The play is good, but the direction smells.
- Informal. to have the appearance or a suggestion of guilt or corruption:
They may be honest, but the whole situation smells.
noun
- the sense of smell; faculty of smelling.
- the quality of a thing that is or may be smelled; odor; scent.
- a trace or suggestion.
- an act or instance of smelling.
- a pervading appearance, character, quality, or influence:
the smell of money.
verb phrase
- to look for or detect as if by smelling; search out:
to smell out enemy spies.
- to fill with an offensive odor; stink up:
The garbage smelled up the yard.
smell
/ 蝉尘蓻濒 /
verb
- tr to perceive the scent or odour of (a substance) by means of the olfactory nerves
- copula to have a specified smell; appear to the sense of smell to be
some tobacco smells very sweet
the beaches smell of seaweed
- introften foll byof to emit an odour (of)
the park smells of flowers
- intr to emit an unpleasant odour; stink
- troften foll byout to detect through shrewdness or instinct
- intr to have or use the sense of smell; sniff
- intrfoll byof to give indications (of)
he smells of money
- intr; foll by around, about, etc to search, investigate, or pry
- copula to be or seem to be untrustworthy or corrupt
- smell a ratto detect something suspicious
noun
- that sense (olfaction) by which scents or odours are perceived olfactory
- anything detected by the sense of smell; odour; scent
- a trace or indication
- the act or an instance of smelling
Derived Forms
- 藞蝉尘别濒濒别谤, noun
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 蝉尘别濒濒顎僡路产濒别 adjective
- 蝉尘别濒濒顎-濒别蝉蝉 adjective
- 辞耻迟顎却尘别濒濒顎 verb (used with object) outsmelled or outsmelt outsmelling
- 耻苍路蝉尘别濒濒别诲顎 adjective
- 耻苍路蝉尘别濒濒顎僫苍驳 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of smell1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of smell1
Idioms and Phrases
- smell a rat. rat ( def 6 ).
More idioms and phrases containing smell
- come up (smelling like) roses
- stink (smell) to high heaven
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
In addition to the public sightings, the team hung traps at 24 locations across the country, luring the insects by the smell of carbon dioxide which mimics human breath.
Our kitchens used to smell like home 鈥 warm spices, olive oil, bread baking in the early afternoon.
After the trucks first arrived in January, there was a strong 鈥渂urnt rubber鈥 smell that eventually diminished but is still bothersome, she said.
"Of all dogs, that would be the last one I would say would survive out there, but they do have a good sense of smell," Mr Karran said.
It is not something I associate with any one person but rather with a particular time, this time, a certain kind of day, a specific smell in the air.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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