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English to English noun
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the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form |  | Example: she loved the smell of roses
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any property detected by the olfactory system | | source: wordnet30
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the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | | Example: the feel of the city excited him
a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting
it had the smell of treason
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the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents | | source: wordnet30
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the act of perceiving the odor of something | | source: wordnet30
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The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense. | | source: webster1913 verb
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inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense | | source: wordnet30
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emit an odor | | Example: The soup smells good
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smell bad | | Example: He rarely washes, and he smells
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have an element suggestive (of something) | | Example: his speeches smacked of racism
this passage smells of plagiarism
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become aware of not through the senses but instinctively | | Example: I sense his hostility
i smell trouble
smell out corruption
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To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate materials or qualities; to obtain the scent of; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes. | | source: webster1913
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To affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or scent; -- often followed by of; as, to smell of smoke, or of musk. | | source: webster1913
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