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SMELL
- to perceive the odor or scent of through stimuli affecting the olfactory nerves get the odor or scent of with the nose
- detect or become aware of as if by the sense of smell I smell trouble
- emit the odor of
- exercise the sense of smell
- to sense with the nose [v -ED, -ING, -S]
- to perceive by means of the olfactory nerves [v SMELLED, SMELLING, SMELLS, SMELT]
- have an odor or scent
- have a characteristic aura or atmosphere smack the accounts à seemed to me to smell of truth R. S. Bourne
- em appear the story didn't smell right
- have an offensive odor stink
- be of bad or questionable quality all this from the moral point of view smells A. F. Wills