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{
"term": "smell",
"partOfSpeech": "verblinking verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "smell",
"heSheIt": "smells"
},
"pastSimple": "smelled",
"pastParticiple": "smelled",
"ingForm": "smelling"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to have a particular smell",
"sensetop": "+ adj.smell of somethingsmell like something",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The room smelt damp.",
"contextForm": "+ adj."
},
{
"text": "Dinner smells good."
},
{
"text": "‘You smell nice,’ Aidan said with a smile."
},
{
"text": "a bunch of sweet-smelling flowers"
},
{
"text": "His breath smelt of garlic.",
"contextForm": "smell of something"
},
{
"text": "When he did come home, he smelled of alcohol."
},
{
"text": "The house smelt of cedar wood and fresh polish."
},
{
"text": "What does the perfume smell like?",
"contextForm": "smell like something"
},
{
"text": "Hydrogen sulphide smells like rotten eggs."
},
{
"text": "The crisp air smells like clean hay."
},
{
"text": "He smelled faintly of sweat."
},
{
"text": "His clothes smelled strongly of fish."
},
{
"text": "The kitchen smelled sweetly of herbs and fruit."
},
{
"text": "It smells like rotten meat!"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["strongly", "faintly", "slightly"],
"preposition": ["like", "of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to notice or recognize a particular smell",
"sensetop": "smell somethingsmell something doing somethingsmell (that)…",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I was watching television when I smelled smoke.",
"contextForm": "smell something"
},
{
"text": "He said he could smell gas when he entered the room."
},
{
"text": "The dog had smelt a rabbit."
},
{
"text": "I could smell alcohol on his breath."
},
{
"text": "Snow fell so that you could almost smell the cold."
},
{
"text": "Can you smell something burning?",
"contextForm": "smell something doing something"
},
{
"text": "As she came downstairs, she smelled bacon cooking."
},
{
"text": "I could smell that something was burning.",
"contextForm": "smell (that)…"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["almost", "practically"],
"verb + smell": ["can"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to be able to notice and recognize smells",
"sensetop": "smell something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I can't smell because I've got a bad cold."
},
{
"text": "I can't smell anything because I've got a bad cold.",
"contextForm": "smell something"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to put your nose near something and breathe in so that you can discover or identify its smell",
"sensetop": "smell something",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Smell this and tell me what you think it is."
},
{
"text": "I bent down to smell the flowers."
},
{
"text": "He leaned in closer and smelled the perfume she was wearing."
}
],
"synonyms": "sniff",
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["almost", "practically"],
"verb + smell": ["can"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "to have an unpleasant smell",
"sensetop": "+ adj.",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The drains smell."
},
{
"text": "Does my breath smell?"
},
{
"text": "He hadn't washed for days and was beginning to smell."
},
{
"text": "After a few days, the meat began to smell."
},
{
"text": "**It smells** in here."
},
{
"text": "It smells awful in here.",
"contextForm": "+ adj."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 6,
"definition": "to feel that something exists or is going to happen",
"sensetop": "smell something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He smelt danger."
},
{
"text": "I can smell trouble."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to still have a good reputation, even though you have been involved in something that might have given people a bad opinion of you",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Nobody ever knew the details and he came out of the deal smelling of roses."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "what is important is what people or things are, not what they are called",
"labels": "(saying)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to suspect that something is wrong about a situation",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to tell somebody to become aware of what is really happening in a situation, especially when this is something unpleasant",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/smel/",
"audio": "sm/smell/smell__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/smelz/",
"audio": "sm/smell/smells__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/smeld/",
"audio": "sm/smell/smelled__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/smelt/",
"audio": "sm/smell/smelt__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsmelɪŋ/",
"audio": "sm/smell/smelling__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/smel/",
"audio": "sm/smell/smell__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/smelz/",
"audio": "sm/smell/smells__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/smeld/",
"audio": "sm/smell/smelled__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/smelt/",
"audio": "sm/smell/smelt__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsmelɪŋ/",
"audio": "sm/smell/smelling__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: of unknown origin."
}