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  • past participle of smell.
  • past tense form of smell.
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smelt

[smelt] / smɛlt /




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"The common area smelt of sewage, there was water dripping through the ceiling and there were public toilets out of action for the whole voyage," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Look no further than GameStop’s $56 billion bid for eBay, which is the equivalent of a smelt swallowing a whale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

Populations of Chinook salmon, steelhead trout, Delta smelt and other species have been declining.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

In my family, everyone new to the table — new partners, neighbors, friends — must try a smelt.

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2025

The reality was decaying, dingy cities, where underfed people shuffled to and fro in leaky shoes, in patched-up nineteenth-century houses that smelt always of cabbage and bad lavatories.

From "1984" by George Orwell

I used to avoid the old-school dishes – baccala, smelts, anchovies.

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2025

"I don't think it would have happened from any area other than Aston with all of those foundries and factories and the smelts and the bomb sites," he adds.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025

As part of a limited bar food menu, Beberman will be workshopping new dish ideas for the restaurant, including fried smelts and chicharrones over pork belly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2019

There was a recent first-person piece on the art of luring crafty little fish called smelts from the icy waters of Maine.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2017

These Sandwich Island natives eat a small species of fish resembling our smelts, quite raw, with their poi.

From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Maturin Murray Ballou




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