smell
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- noun
- /smɛl/
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- Just then, Casimir's nose picked up the sweet smell of prey a mile or so distant.
- sense of smell
- smell and taste
- acute sense of smell
Your vision, your hearing, your smell, your taste, and your touch.
- Your vision, your hearing, your smell, your taste, and your touch.
- That is what we hear, what we smell, what we feel, what we taste.
- All right, the power of smell is something serious.
- They're hearing, their sight, their smell, their sound, their touch.
Examples
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Until I die, that smell will be ingrained in my senses.
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A sharpening of the sense of smell was another effect of pregnancy, apparently.
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All right, the power of smell is something serious.
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Superior sense of smell, my friend.
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A poet with a sense of smell.
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The gray summer darkness rose up with the smell of the water.
Fiction book (1994) -
My eyesight is terrible, but my sense of smell is abnormally good.
Fiction book (1994) -
It retains the memory of the smell of her infant son's hair.
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What's that smell?
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Dogs are known for their exceptional sense of smell, which allows them to track scents over long distances.
Synonyms
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The ability to notice and tell scents apart with the nose
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The sense that lets you smell and tell smells apart
The sense that lets people smell and tell different scents apart
Idioms
A sign that someone works late and studies hard, or the smell of an oil lamp
To have a strong, unpleasant scent of old heavy perfume and dampness
Compounds
- Literature
A very strong bad air that makes you think of rotting things or disease
How Sensitive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Smell comes from the old English word smellan, which meant 'to sniff' or notice an odor, so the word has long been about the nose and its power. That's why smell can mean the ability to detect scents.