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What does smell mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word smell? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
  2. (physiology) The sense that detects odours.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To sense a smell or smells.
  2. (intransitive) To have a particular smell, whether good or bad; if descriptive, followed by "like" or "of".
  3. (intransitive, without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.
  4. (intransitive, figuratively) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.
  5. (obsolete) To exercise sagacity.
  6. To detect or perceive; often with out.
  7. (obsolete) To give heed to.
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