smell
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- smell is part of the Basic English 850.
Pronunciation[change]
Verb[change]
Plain form |
Third-person singular |
Past tense |
Past participle |
Present participle |
- To use the nose to sense something.
- She put her nose near the flowers and breathed in to smell them.
- She smelled the waste and felt sick.
- To 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.