Definitions for smell

• Definition
• Anagrams (45)

smell smell

Spelling: [smel]

IPA: /smɛl/

Smell is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in smell (ellms).

Definitions for smell

noun

1. the sense of smell; faculty of smelling.
2. the quality of a thing that is or may be smelled; odor; scent.
3. a trace or suggestion.
4. an act or instance of smelling.
5. a pervading appearance, character, quality, or influence:

Idioms

1. smell a rat. rat (def 6).

Verb phrases

1. smell out, to look for or detect as if by smelling; search out:
2. smell up, to fill with an offensive odor; stink up:

verb (used with object)

1. to perceive the odor or scent of through the nose by means of the olfactory nerves; inhale the odor of:
2. to test by the sense of smell:
3. to perceive, detect, or discover by shrewdness or sagacity:

verb (used without object)

1. to perceive something by its odor or scent.
2. to search or investigate (followed by around or about).
3. to give off or have an odor or scent:
4. to give out an offensive odor; stink.
5. to have a particular odor (followed by of):
6. to have a trace or suggestion (followed by of).
7. Informal. to be of inferior quality; stink:
8. Informal. to have the appearance or a suggestion of guilt or corruption:

Origin of smell

1125-75; early Middle English smell, smull (noun), smellen, smullen (v.)

Examples for smell

“J.W. heard Hayden say softly, ‘You smell good,’” the papers report.

There was a smell of cooking, and the people gathering between the huts.

“They see the crowds, they smell the hot dogs,” said Dolan, playing out the metaphor.

But Colley ain't no good on Diablo, an' if he can smell Shandy, that settles it—it's all over.

The smell of grilled meat mixes with the exotic wafts of cinnamon tea served with a mush of sweet brown dessert.

I could smell the patchouli oil he was wearing as well as the incense that was burning in the studio.

There is the smell here of an indecent rush for scapegoats, even before we know what really caused this crash.

For in those days men could smell weather quite as well as the other animals.

Then came smoke, the smell of scorching linen, and a cry of horror from Celine.

He could smell Indians in hiding and wood smoke three leagues away.