Tra từ smell - Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

1 smelling sth
2 the things that you smell
3 good smells
4 bad smells
other senses FEEL, HEAR, SEE, TASTE
see also NOSE

1 smelling sth
- to notice or identify sth by using your nose: smell sth
I smelled the cakes cooking in the kitchen. ◎ Can you smell something burning?
- to identify or examine sth by using your nose: smell sth; to do this by breathing in quickly: sniff (at) sth
She leant forward and smelled the flowers. ◎ She sniffed the milk and decided not to use it. ◎ The dog sniffed at the food and began to eat.
- the ability to smell: sense of smell
He has lost his sense of smell. ◎ to have a good/bad sense of smell

2 things that you smell
- what you smell: smell
What's that smell? ◎ a sweet/pleasant smell ◎ I love the smell of baking bread.
- the smell and taste of food: flavour (AmE flavor)(noun C/U)
I think a bit of parsley would improve the flavour of this soup.
- the smell that an animal leaves behind, which can be followed by other animals: scent
to follow a scent
- to have a particular smell: smell + adjective, smell of sth, smell like sth
That perfume smells nice. ◎ His clothes smell of tobacco. ◎ His bedroom smells like a chemist's shop with all those medicines.
- to send a smell out into the air: give* sth off
The rotting vegetables gave off a terrible smell.
- something which can easily be smelt has a strong smell, smells strongly
There was a strong smell of polish in the house. ◎ Her breath always smelled strongly of garlic.
- something which cannot easily be smelt has a weak or faint smell
There was a faint smell of disinfectant in the air.
- something which has no smell is odourless
an odourless gas

3 good smells
- smelling pleasant, like flowers: sweet
the sweet smell of roses
- a pleasant, often sweet, smell: scent
the scent of the countryside
- (often used about food) very good to smell and taste: delicious
That smells absolutely delicious.
※ making yourself smell nice
- a liquid that people put on their bodies to make them smell nice: perfume (noun U/C), scent (noun U); adjectives: scented, perfumed
What perfume are you wearing? ◎ a bottle of perfume ◎ a scent bottle ◎ scented soap
※ other things for making you smell nice COSMETICS

4 bad smells
- to have a bad smell: smell; adjective: (informal) smelly
Don't go in that room - it smells. ◎ He's got smelly feet.
- a bad or unpleasant smell: smell, odour (AmE odor)
There's a smell in here and I don't know where it's coming from. ◎ What a smell!
- the unpleasant smell of a person's body when it is sweating: body odour (noun U)
- to have a very bad smell: (informal) stink* (of sth)
She told him that his breath stank of alcohol.
- a very unpleasant smell: (informal) stink, (formal) stench
the stench of disease and death
- very unpleasant: foul
a foul smell
- a chemical which removes bad smells from a room, etc: air-freshener (noun U)