smell

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The smell of fresh bread fills the bakery.

Definition

  1. Noun:

    • The faculty or sense that allows the perception of odors: The biological ability to detect and identify scents through the nose.
    • A quality or sensation perceived by this sense; an odor or scent: The specific characteristic perceived by smelling, which can be pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral.
    • The general character or atmosphere of something, often detected intuitively: A figurative sense referring to an impression or suggestion about a situation.

  2. Verb (smelled or smelt):

    • To perceive or detect the odor of something through the nose: To use the sense of smell.
    • To emit or have a particular odor: To produce a scent.
    • To have a suggestion or trace of something: Figuratively, to seem to indicate a particular quality.
    • To detect or suspect something intuitively: To sense something is wrong or present without direct evidence.
Usage Examples

  • Noun:

    • Dogs have an excellent sense of smell.
    • The smell of fresh coffee filled the kitchen.
    • There was a smell of dishonesty about the deal.

  • Verb:

    • Can you smell the smoke?
    • This perfume smells like jasmine.
    • His apology smelled of insincerity.
    • I smell trouble ahead if we don't change our plan.
Advanced Usage

  • "to smell a rat": To suspect that something is wrong or that someone is being deceitful.

    • When he offered the deal with no contract, I began to smell a rat.

  • "to smell of the lamp": (Literary) To show signs of laborious study or effort in writing, often making it seem unnatural.

    • The essay was accurate but smelled of the lamp, lacking any creative spark.

  • "to smell blood": To sense that an opponent is weakened or vulnerable.

    • After the company's profits fell, competitors began to smell blood.
Variants and Related Words

  • Smelly (adj): Having a strong or unpleasant odor.

    • He took off his smelly socks.

  • Smell-less (adj): Having no odor; odorless.

    • Carbon monoxide is a smell-less gas.
Synonyms
  • Noun: Odor, scent, aroma, fragrance, stench, whiff.
  • Verb: Scent, sniff, whiff, detect, reek, stink.
Related Phrasal Verbs

  • Smell out: To discover something by smelling or by investigation.

    • The police dog smelled out the drugs hidden in the luggage.
    • The journalist smelled out the corruption scandal.

  • Smell up: To fill a place with a smell, typically an unpleasant one.

    • Someone smelled up the break room by burning popcorn.
Related Idioms

  • Come up/out smelling of roses: To emerge from a difficult situation with one's reputation unharmed or enhanced.

    • Despite the controversy, the politician came out smelling of roses.

  • Smell fishy: To seem suspicious or not right.

    • His explanation for being late smells fishy to me.
smell

The smell of fresh bread fills the bakery.

Noun
  1. the act of perceiving the odor of something
  2. the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents
  3. 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
  4. any property detected by the olfactory system
  5. the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form
    • she loved the smell of roses
Verb
  1. become aware of not through the senses but instinctively
    • I sense his hostility
    • i smell trouble
    • smell out corruption
  2. have an element suggestive (of something)
    • his speeches smacked of racism
    • this passage smells of plagiarism
  3. smell bad
    • He rarely washes, and he smells
  4. emit an odor
    • The soup smells good
  5. inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense

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