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olfacting

olfacting is the present participle and gerund of olfact.

Meaning of olfact

Verb

olfact (third-person singular simple present olfacts, present participle olfacting, simple past and past participle olfacted)

  1. (rare, transitive) To smell.
    • There is a Machiavelian plot,
      (Tho' ev'ry nare olfact it not)1663–1678, Samuel Butler, Hudibras

Questions about olfacting

What is olfacting the present participle and gerund of?
Olfacting is the present participle and gerund of olfact.

Words near olfacting in the dictionary

  1. olfacted
  2. olfactible
  3. olfactic
  4. olfactics
  5. olfacties
  6. olfacting
  7. olfaction
  8. olfactions
  9. olfactive
  10. olfacto-
  11. olfactogustatory

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Adapted from Wiktionary: olfacting (page history and authors); olfact (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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