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smell
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- pronunciation:
- smel
- parts of speech:
- verb, noun
- features:
- Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
smells, smelling, smelled, smelt |
| definition 1: |
When you smell something, your nose is working to tell you something. When you smell smoke in the air, you know there is smoke because of what your nose tells you.
As soon as I came into the house, I smelled bread baking. |
| definition 2: |
Sometimes when you smell something, it means that you use your nose to enjoy it or find out something about it.
When Celia's mom got roses for her birthday, she smelled each one of them.Nick's dad smelled the milk to see if it was still fresh.
- synonyms:
- sniff
- similar words:
- examine
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| definition 3: |
When something smells, it gives off something into the air that you can sense and judge with your nose.
My baby brother's skin smells nice after he has his bath.Some flowers smell a lot, but other flowers don't smell much at all. |
| definition 4: |
If we say that the refrigerator smells, we mean that it gives off something bad into the air that a person's nose can sense.
The rotten vegetables started to smell.My brother's feet smell when he takes off his sneakers.- synonyms:
- stink
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| related words: |
detect |
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
Smell is one of the senses that people use to learn about what is around them. Besides smell, there is sight, touch, taste, and hearing. Just as we use our ears for hearing and our eyes for sight, we use our nose for smell.
Ben has a bad cold, so his sense of smell isn't very good today.Without smell, we wouldn't enjoy things like flowers and food as much as we do. |
| definition 2: |
A smell is what we sense about something when we use our nose. Some smells, like the smell of cookies baking, are things that people usually enjoy. Other smells, like the smell of dirty socks, are things that people don't usually enjoy!
There is a good smell coming from the kitchen.I like the smell of a campfire.- synonyms:
- odor, scent
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| definition 3: |
A smell is the act or an instance of smelling.
One smell was enough to know that the milk was bad. |
| related words: |
perfume |
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