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smell

verb as in perceive with the nose

verb as in have an odor

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Meanwhile, the smell of roasting meat was undeniable.

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“Trick or treat, smell my feet, walk with Christ down the Halloween street,” he chants.

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But, having paid a fee and booked a meeting with them, her family smelled a rat.

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The author burrowed into lexicographical lore, adjusting to the “musky” smell of old paper, but was alive to the need to register the zeitgeist.

The air smelled faintly like burnt cornmeal and panic.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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