Tra từ smell - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

smell [smell smells smelled smelt smelling] verb, noun BrE [smel] NAmE [smel]
verb (smelled, smelled)(BrE also smelt, smeltBrE [smelt] ; NAmE [smelt] )
1. intransitive to have a particular smell
•+ adj. The room smelt damp.
• Dinner smells good.
•a bunch of sweet-smelling flowers
•~ of sth His breath smelt of garlic.
•The house smelt of cedar wood and fresh polish.
•~ like sth What does the perfume smell like?
2. transitive, no passive (not used in the progressive tenses; often with can or could)to notice or recognize a particular smell
•~ sth He said he could smell gas when he entered the room.
• The dog had smelt a rabbit.
•I could smell alcohol on his breath.
•~ sth doing sth Can you smell something burning?
•~ (that)… I could smell that something was burning.
3. intransitive (not used in the progressive tenses; often with can or could)to be able to notice and recognize smells
•I can't smell because I've got a bad cold.
4. transitive ~ sth (not usually used in the passive)to put your nose near sth and breathe in so that you can discover or identify its smell
Syn: ↑sniff
• Smell this and tell me what you think it is.
• I bent down to smell the flowers.
5. intransitive (not used in the progressive tenses)to have an unpleasant smell
• The drains smell.
•It smells in here.
•He hadn't washed for days and was beginning to smell.
6. transitive, no passive ~ sth to feel that sth exists or is going to happen
•He smelt danger.
•I can smell trouble.
more at a rose by any other name would smell as sweet at ↑rose _n., wake up and smell the coffee at ↑wake _v.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Middle English: of unknown origin.

Example Bank:
•After a few days, the meat began to smell.
•Can you smell gas?
•He smelled faintly of sweat.
•His clothes smelled strongly of fish.
•I had a streaming cold, so I could not smell properly.
•It smells like rotten meat!
•Snow fell so that you could almost smell the cold.
•The kitchen smelled sweetly of herbs and fruit.
•You could practically smell the danger around us.
•It smells in here, can you open a window?
•Those drains smell.
Idioms: ↑come up of something smelling of roses ▪ ↑smell a rat
Derived: ↑smell somebody out

noun
1. countable, uncountable the quality of sth that people and animals sense through their noses
•a faint/strong smell of garlic
•a sweet/fresh/musty smell
• There was a smell of burning in the air.
• The smells from the kitchen filled the room.
2. singular an unpleasant smell
• What's that smell?
• Yuk! What a smell!
3. uncountable the ability to sense things with the nose
• Dogs have a very good sense of smell.
• Taste and smell are closely connected.
4. countable the act of smelling sth
Syn: ↑sniff
•He took one smell of the liquid and his eyes began to water.
see the sweet smell of success at ↑sweet _adj.

Word Origin:
Middle English: of unknown origin.

Thesaurus:
smell noun
1. C, U
•Do you like the smell of coffee?
scent • • aroma • • fragrance • • whiff •
a smell/the scent/an aroma/the fragrance/a whiff of sth
have/give off a/an smell/scent/aroma/fragrance/whiff
a/an smell/scent/aroma hangs/lingers/comes/wafts somewhere
2. sing.
•What's that terrible smell?
reek • |BrE odour • |AmE odor • |informal stink • |especially written literary stench •
a/an smell/reek/odour/stink/stench of sth
a foul/powerful/putrid smell/odour/stench
give off a/an smell/odour/stench

Vocabulary Building:
Smells
Describing smells
These adjectives describe pleasant smells:
scented candles
aromatic oils
fragrant perfume
sweet-smelling flowers
To describe unpleasant smells you can use:
smelly cheese
stinking fish
musty old books
acrid smokeTypes of smell
Pleasant smells:
the rich aroma of fresh coffee
a herb with a delicate fragrance
a rose’s sweet perfume
the scent of wild flowers
Unpleasant smells:
nasty household odours
the stench of rotting meat
the stink of stale sweat
the reek of beer and tobacco

Example Bank:
•A delicious smell of freshly baked bread wafted across the lawn.
•An acrid smell filled the air.
•As she walked into the house she detected the smell of gas.
•Cooking smells drifted up from the kitchen.
•Deer have a keen sense of smell.
•Fragrance dispensers are designed to mask unpleasant smells.
•The air was filled with a pervasive smell of chemicals.
•The cottage had a musty smell after being shut up over the winter.
•The faint smell of her perfume hung in the air.
•The sights, sounds and smells of Delhi stunned me.
•The skunk gives off an unpleasant smell when attacked.
•The smell was coming from the kitchen.
•Then the pungent smell hit us— rotting fish and seaweed.
•There was an overpowering smell of burning rubber.
•What's that funny smell?
•the aromatic smells of a spring garden full of herbs
•the putrid smell from the slaughterhouse
•the smell of smoke
•the sour smell of unwashed linen
•the sweet smell of roses
•Do you like the smell of coffee?
•See if you can get rid of that smell.
•The smell of burning stubble drifted through the air.
•There was a musty smell in the attic.
•There was an unmistakable smell of alcohol on his breath.
•What a terrible smell!
•Wonderful cooking smells were coming from the kitchen.