📒 to have a particular smell
- + adj. The room smelt damp.
- Dinner smells good.
- ‘You smell nice,’ Aidan said with a smile.
📒 to notice or recognize a particular smell
- smell something I was watching television when I smelled smoke.
- He said he could smell gas when he entered the room.
- The dog had smelt a rabbit.
📒 to be able to notice and recognize smells
- I can't smell because I've got a bad cold.
- smell something I can't smell anything because I've got a bad cold.
📒 to put your nose near something and breathe in so that you can discover or identify its smell
- Smell this and tell me what you think it is.
- I bent down to smell the flowers.
- He leaned in closer and smelled the perfume she was wearing.
📒 to have an unpleasant smell
- The drains smell.
- Does my breath smell?
- He hadn't washed for days and was beginning to smell.
📒 to feel that something exists or is going to happen
- He smelt danger.
- I can smell trouble.
📒 to still have a good reputation, even though you have been involved in something that might have given people a bad opinion of you
- Nobody ever knew the details and he came out of the deal smelling of roses.
📒 what is important is what people or things are, not what they are called
📒 to suspect that something is wrong about a situation
📒 used to tell somebody to become aware of what is really happening in a situation, especially when this is something unpleasant