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A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.

Example: I love the smell of fresh bread.

The sense that detects odours.

A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.

To sense a smell or smells.

Example: I can smell fresh bread.

Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.

Example: Her feet smell of cheese.

(without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.

Example: Ew, this stuff smells.

To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.

Example: A report smells of calumny.