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the act of perceiving the odor of something the faculty of smell the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form; "she loved the smell of roses" emit an odor; "The soup smells good" smell bad; "He rarely washes, and he smells" inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense any property detected by the olfactory system the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" |
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