smelling
Meaning of smelling
verb
- To sense a smell or smells.
I can smell fresh bread.
- Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
Her feet smell of cheese.
- (without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.
Ew, this stuff smells.
- To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.
A report smells of calumny.
- To exercise sagacity.
- To detect or perceive; often with out.
- To give heed to.
noun
The act by which something is smelled.
Information about smelling
- The plural form of smelling is: smellings.
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Hyphenation of smelling
smelling
- It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
- smelling is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
smelling synonyms
Meaning redolent:
Meaning smell:
Meaning :
detect, sense, pong, reek, stink, whiff
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