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noun
- 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 of fresh bread.
- (physiology) The sense that detects smells.
Translations: - Dutch: reukzin
- German: Geruch
- Italian: odore
- Italian, odore
(trans-mid)
- Spanish: olor
- French: odorat
verb (smells, smelling, smelled or smelt)
- (transitive) To sense a smell or smells.
- I can fresh bread.
- Smell the milk and tell me whether it's gone off.
- (context, transitive, followed by like or of) To have the smell (of).
- His feet of cheese.
- The bum smelt like a brewery.
- (intransitive) To have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
- The roses lovely.
Translations: - Dutch: ruiken, geuren, stinken (unpleasant)
- French: sentir
- German: riechen, stinken (unpleasant)
- Italian: sentire
(trans-mid)
- Spanish: oler
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