smell something out

smell something out
detect or discover something by the faculty of smell.
smell

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  • smell something out — …   Useful english dictionary

  • stink something out — ˌstink sthˈout derived to fill a place with a strong, unpleasant smell • She stinks out the whole house with her incense and candles. Main entry: ↑stinkderived …   Useful english dictionary

  • smell out — verb 1. recognize or detect by or as if by smelling He can smell out trouble • Syn: ↑sniff out, ↑scent out, ↑nose out • Entailment: ↑smell • Verb Frames …   Useful english dictionary

  • smell — noun 1》 the faculty of perceiving odours by means of the organs in the nose. 2》 a quality in something that is perceived by this faculty; an odour.     ↘an unpleasant odour. 3》 an act of inhaling in order to ascertain an odour. verb (past and… …   English new terms dictionary

  • Smell — (sm[e^]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Smelled}, {Smelt}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Smelling}.] [OE. smellen, smillen, smullen; cf. LG. smellen, smelen, sm[ o]len, schmelen, to smoke, to reek, D. smeulen to smolder, and E. smolder. Cf. {Smell}, n.] 1. To… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • smell — smell1 W3S2 [smel] n 1.) the quality that people and animals recognize by using their nose smell of ▪ The air was filled with the smell of flowers. sweet/delicious smell ▪ There s a delicious smell coming from the kitchen. unpleasant/bad/acrid… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • smell — 1 /smel/ noun 1 (C) the quality that people and animals recognize by using their nose: Some flowers have a stronger smell than others. | The wine has a light, lemony smell. (+ of): I opened the window to get rid of the smell of beer and… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • smell — [[t]sme̱l[/t]] ♦♦♦ smells, smelling, smelled, smelt (American English usually uses the form smelled as the past tense and past participle. British English uses either smelled or smelt.) 1) N COUNT: oft N of n The smell of something is a quality… …   English dictionary

  • smell — smellable, adj. smell less, adj. /smel/, v., smelled or smelt, smelling, n. v.t. 1. to perceive the odor or scent of through the nose by means of the olfactory nerves; inhale the odor of: I smell something burning. 2. to test by the sense of… …   Universalium

  • smell — smell,[/p] scent, odor, aroma all denote a property of a thing that makes it perceptible to the olfactory sense. Smell not only is the most general of these terms but tends to be the most colorless. It is the appropriate word when merely the… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

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