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Smell

/smel/

To perceive or detect an odor through the sense of the nose.

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Everywhere I smelt death – death and blood.His face smells of shaving soap and eau de Cologne.The river smelled of paraffin.

From Middle English smellen, derived from Middle Dutch smulen (to smoke, to emit odor).

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