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smell

  [smel] verb, smelled or smelt, smell⋅ing, noun
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–verb (used with object)
1. to perceive the odor or scent of through the nose by means of the olfactory nerves; inhale the odor of: I smell something burning.
2. to test by the sense of smell: She smelled the meat to see if it was fresh.
3. to perceive, detect, or discover by shrewdness or sagacity: The detective smelled foul play.
–verb (used without object)
4. to perceive something by its odor or scent.
5. to search or investigate (fol. by around or about).
6. to give off or have an odor or scent: Do the yellow roses smell?
7. to give out an offensive odor; stink.
8. to have a particular odor (fol. by of): My hands smell of fish.
9. to have a trace or suggestion (fol. by of).
10. Informal. to be of inferior quality; stink: The play is good, but the direction smells.
11. Informal. to have the appearance or a suggestion of guilt or corruption: They may be honest, but the whole situation smells.
–noun
12. the sense of smell; faculty of smelling.
13. the quality of a thing that is or may be smelled; odor; scent.
14. a trace or suggestion.
15. an act or instance of smelling.
16. a pervading appearance, character, quality, or influence: the smell of money.
—Verb phrases
17. smell out, to look for or detect as if by smelling; search out: to smell out enemy spies.
18. smell up, to fill with an offensive odor; stink up: The garbage smelled up the yard.
—Idiom
19. smell a rat. rat (def. 6).
Origin:
1125–75; early ME smell, smull (n.), smellen, smullen (v.) < ?

Related forms:
smell⋅a⋅ble, adjective
smell-less, adjective

Synonyms:
13. See odor.
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Word Origin & History

smell  (v.)
c.1175, "emit or perceive an odor," also n., "odor, aroma, stench," not found in O.E., perhaps cognate with M.Du. smolen, Low Ger. smelen "to smolder" (see smolder). OED says "no doubt of O.E. origin, but not recorded, and not represented in any of the cognate languages." Ousted O.E. stenc (see stench) in most senses. Someone should revive smell-feast (n.) "one who scents out where free food is to be had" (1519, "very common" c.1540-1700, OED) and smell-smock "licentious man" (c.1550-1900). To smell a rat "be suspicious" is from 1550.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2smell
Function: noun
1 : the property of a thing that affects the olfactory organs : ODOR
2 : the special sense concerned with the perception of odor
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

smell (směl)
v. smelled or smelt (smělt), smell·ing, smells
To perceive the scent of something by means of the olfactory nerves. n.
The sense by which odors are perceived; the olfactory sense.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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