smell of
闻起来像是
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Definitions
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smelled or smelt, smell·ing.
- : to perceive the odor or scent of through the nose by means of the olfactory nerves; inhale the odor of: I smell something burning.
- : to test by the sense of smell: She smelled the meat to see if it was fresh.
- : to perceive, detect, or discover by shrewdness or sagacity: The detective smelled foul play.
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smelled or smelt, smell·ing.
- : to perceive something by its odor or scent.
- : to search or investigate.
- : to give off or have an odor or scent: Do the yellow roses smell?
- : to give out an offensive odor; stink.
- : to have a particular odor: My hands smell of fish.
- : to have a trace or suggestion.
- : Informal. to be of inferior quality; stink: The play is good, but the direction smells.
- : Informal. to have the appearance or a suggestion of guilt or corruption: They may be honest, but the whole situation smells.
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- : the sense of smell; faculty of smelling.
- : the quality of a thing that is or may be smelled; odor; scent.
- : a trace or suggestion.
- : an act or instance of smelling.
- : a pervading appearance, character, quality, or influence: the smell of money.
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- : smell out, to look for or detect as if by smelling; search out: to smell out enemy spies.
- : smell up, to fill with an offensive odor; stink up: The garbage smelled up the yard.
Phrases
- smell a rat
- smell fishy
- smell to high heaven
- smell up
- come up (smelling like) roses
- stink (smell) to high heaven
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
“If there’s smell, it means that somehow air has been transported to where it shouldn’t go,” Morawska said in an interview.
After all, they have a much better sense of smell than do people.
Newly remote workers are experimenting with scented workspaces, and their potential to make hours with an Excel spreadsheet feel, or at least smell, more like a day at the beach.
For now, the study doesn’t touch upon the neural highways inside the brain that lead to conscious perception of smell—an obvious next question.
We could end up experiencing much of life alone at home, with no privacy, forgetting the importance of the touch and smell of cultural experiences.
There is the smell here of an indecent rush for scapegoats, even before we know what really caused this crash.
The smell of grilled meat mixes with the exotic wafts of cinnamon tea served with a mush of sweet brown dessert.
There is a distinct smell of apples, which are handed out by volunteer workers.
You can practically smell the sugar maples and wood violets.
“J.W. heard Hayden say softly, ‘You smell good,’” the papers report.
This gives to the second volume something of the smell of an apple store-room.
From early morn to early morn again, the hot winds continued, and the air was surcharged with the smell of burning plants.
One little girl attempted to smell at the trees in a drawing and pretended to feed some pictorial dogs.
Chloride of Lime … bad smell … bad egg … white of egg … fowl … grain … flour … flour and water … milk fluid … milk.
Surely it is not urbane to throw on another the burden of saying that he likes not the smell or the inhaling of burning tobacco.