smell
/smɛl/ noun A1- A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance. · I love the smell of fresh bread.
- The sense that detects odours.
- A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.
Plural smells
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Two soldiers were accordingly sent for, and the inspector descended a stairway, so foul, so humid, so dark, as to be loathsome to sight, smell, and respiration.
“I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I’ve never been able to believe it.
The smell of hot metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready to flash out at a moment’s notice.
Having sniffed the dead man’s lips I detected a slightly sour smell, and I came to the conclusion that he had had poison forced upon him.
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