smelling
/ˈsmɛlɪŋ/ verb C2- Used in adjectival compounds. · foul-smelling (having a foul smell)· sweet-smelling (having a sweet smell)
Verb forms
- Base form
- smelling
- He/she/it
- smellings
- Past
- smellinged
- Past participle
- smellinged
- -ing form
- smellinging
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So they lay down among the sweet smelling yellow flowers and slept soundly until morning—all but the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman.
These green and sweetly smelling crops
Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all round with crates and massive boxes.
He could distinguish amid the perfumes of the roses and heliotropes in the flower-stands, the sharp and fragrant odor of volatile salts, and he noticed in one of the chased cups on the mantle-piece the countess’s smelling-bottle, taken from its shagreen case, and exclaimed in a tone of uneasiness, as he entered:
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