smell
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Synonyms: swell, shell, small, spell, sell, snell, stell, mell, skell, smelt, szell
Antonyms: swell, shell, small, spell, sell, snell, stell, mell, skell, smelt, szell
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Noun
- A [[sensation]], pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying [[airborne]] [[molecule]]s of a substance.
- {{lb|en|physiology}} The [[sense]] that detects [[odour]]s.
- A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.
Verb
- {{senseid|en|detect odor}} {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[sense]] a smell or smells.
- {{senseid|en|omit odor whether good or bad}} {{lb|en|intransitive|copulative}} ''Followed by'' '''{{l|en|like}}''' ''or'' '''{{l|en|of}}''' ''if descriptive'': to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
- {{lb|en|obsolete}} To give heed to.
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