smell

smell
smell [smel]
(verb: preterite, past participle smelled or smelt)
1. noun
odeur f
• to have a good sense of smell avoir l'odorat m très développé
• a gas with no smell un gaz inodore
• it has a nice/nasty smell cela sent bon/mauvais
• what a smell in here! ce que ça sent mauvais ici !
• there was a smell of burning il y avait une odeur de brûlé
2. transitive verb
sentir
• he could smell something burning il sentait que quelque chose brûlait
• I smell a rat! il y a quelque chose de louche !
• he smelled danger il a flairé le danger
• I smell danger! je pressens un danger !
3. intransitive verb
• it smells ça sent mauvais
• it doesn't smell ça ne sent rien
• his breath smells il a mauvaise haleine
• it smells of garlic ça sent l'ail
• to smell good sentir bon
• to smell bad sentir mauvais
• that smells delicious! ça sent très bon !
• it smells dreadful! ça pue !
► smell out separable transitive verb
   a. ( = discover) découvrir
   b. it's smelling the room out ça empeste la pièce
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[smel] 1.
noun
1) (odour) odeur f

what a smell! — comme ça sent mauvais!

2) (sense) odorat m

sense of smell — odorat m

3) (action)

to have a smell of — sentir un peu

4) fig relents mpl
2.
transitive verb (prét, pp smelled, smelt GB)
1) lit sentir

I can smell burning — ça sent le brûlé

2) fig (detect) gen flairer; repérer [liar, cheat]
3.
intransitive verb (prét, pp smelled, smelt GB)
1) (have odour) sentir

this flower doesn't smell — cette fleur ne sent rien

to smell of roses — sentir la rose

that smells like curry — ça sent le curry; fig

to smell of — sentir [corruption]

2) (have sense of smell) avoir de l'odorat
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