scent
/sɛnt/ noun B2- A distinctive smell. · the scent of flowers / of a skunk· to give off / release / exude a scent
- A smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing. · The dogs picked up / caught the scent but then quickly lost it.
- The sense of smell.
- A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell. · a scent shop· a scent bazaar
- Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase. · The minister's off-hand remark put journalists on the scent of a cover-up.· The tip put the detectives on a false scent / the wrong scent.
Plural scents
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Soon they rolled the Lion out of the poppy bed to the green fields, where he could breathe the sweet, fresh air again, instead of the poisonous scent of the flowers.
Our scent runs cold here, and there is a vast gap between either hypothesis and the laying of West’s body, with seven papers in his pocket, on the roof of a Metropolitan train.
“Aren’t they beautiful?” the girl asked, as she breathed in the spicy scent of the bright flowers.
It is a very cold scent upon which the Metropolitan expert is generally asked to run.
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