"smelt" in the noun sense

1. smelt

small cold-water silvery fish migrate between salt and fresh water

2. smelt

small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters

"smelt" in the verb sense

1. smell

inhale the odor of perceive by the olfactory sense

2. smell

emit an odor

"The soup smells good"

3. smell

smell bad

"He rarely washes, and he smells"

4. smack, reek, smell

have an element suggestive (of something

"his speeches smacked of racism"

"this passage smells of plagiarism"

5. smell, smell out, sense

become aware of not through the senses but instinctively

"I sense his hostility"

"I smell trouble"

"smell out corruption"

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