smold

Verb

smell (third-person singular simple present smells, present participle smelling, simple past and past participle smelled or smelt)

1. (transitive) To sense a smell or smells.
   • I can smell fresh bread.

   Synonyms:

   detect, sense

   1. (broadly, transitive) To detect or perceive; often with out.
      • I smell a device.c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
2. (copulative, intransitive) Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
   • The roses smell lovely.

   Synonyms:

   pong, reek, stink, whiff

   1. (broadly, copulative, intransitive) To smell of; to have a smell of
      • I do smell all horse-piss1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
   2. (copulative, intransitive) To smell bad; to stink.
      • Ew, this restroom smells (loathsomely).
   3. (copulative, figuratively, intransitive) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.
      • A report smells of calumny.

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