smell
Pronunciation
[change]Verb
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Third-person singular |
Past tense |
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Plain form |
Third-person singular |
Past tense |
Past participle |
Present participle |
- If you smell something, you use the nose to sense it.
- She put her nose near the flowers and breathed in to smell them.
- She smelled the waste and felt sick.
- If something smells, it gently put a substance that people can smell into the air.
- The flowers smell very good.
- The waste smells bad.
Noun
[change]- The way a thing smells; the substance in the air that people can smell.
- The smell of the flowers is very good.