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How to pronounce “smell”
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Pronunciation guide for smell
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of smell with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Tides of Mind
or to make it rust or to make it smell like roses.
- Definition summary
- A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
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How to pronounce smell
The Tides of Mind

or to make it rust or to make it smell like roses.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “smell”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
- (physiology) The sense that detects odours.
- A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To sense a smell or smells.
- (intransitive, copulative) Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
- (obsolete) To give heed to.
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