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resniffed

resniffed is the simple past and past participle of resniff.

Meaning of resniff

Verb

resniff (third-person singular simple present resniffs, present participle resniffing, simple past and past participle resniffed)

  1. (ambitransitive) To sniff again.
    • This apparently left the Colonial Office unmoved for it merely resniffed that no guns could be supplied from Great Britain because treaties with Egypt prevented guns from being shipped through the Suez Canal and that all available R.A.F. planes were engaged in the Berlin Airlift.1973, Norman Cleaveland, Bang! Bang! in Ampang: Dredging Tin During Malaya's "emergency."

Questions about resniffed

What is resniffed the simple past and past participle of?
Resniffed is the simple past and past participle of resniff.

Words near resniffed in the dictionary

  1. ResNet
  2. ResNets
  3. Resnick
  4. Resnicks
  5. resniff
  6. resniffed
  7. resniffing
  8. resniffs
  9. Resnik
  10. resnub
  11. resnubbed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: resniffed (page history and authors); resniff (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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