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▸ noun:  A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
▸ noun:  (physiology) The sense that detects odours.
▸ noun:  A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To sense a smell or smells.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, copulative) Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.
▸ verb:  To detect or perceive; often with out.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To give heed to.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To smell of; to have a smell of

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