{
    "term": "smell",
    "partOfSpeech": "verblinking verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "smell",
            "heSheIt": "smells"
        },
        "pastSimple": "smelled",
        "pastParticiple": "smelled",
        "ingForm": "smelling"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to have a particular smell",
            "sensetop": "+ adj.smell of somethingsmell like something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The room smelt damp.",
                    "contextForm": "+ adj."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Dinner smells good."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘You smell nice,’ Aidan said with a smile."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a bunch of sweet-smelling flowers"
                },
                {
                    "text": "His breath smelt of garlic.",
                    "contextForm": "smell of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "When he did come home, he smelled of alcohol."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The house smelt of cedar wood and fresh polish."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What does the perfume smell like?",
                    "contextForm": "smell like something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Hydrogen sulphide smells like rotten eggs."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The crisp air smells like clean hay."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He smelled faintly of sweat."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His clothes smelled strongly of fish."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The kitchen smelled sweetly of herbs and fruit."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It smells like rotten meat!"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["strongly", "faintly", "slightly"],
                "preposition": ["like", "of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to notice or recognize a particular smell",
            "sensetop": "smell somethingsmell something doing somethingsmell (that)…",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I was watching television when I smelled smoke.",
                    "contextForm": "smell something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He said he could smell gas when he entered the room."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The dog had smelt a rabbit."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I could smell alcohol on his breath."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Snow fell so that you could almost smell the cold."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Can you smell something burning?",
                    "contextForm": "smell something doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "As she came downstairs, she smelled bacon cooking."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I could smell that something was burning.",
                    "contextForm": "smell (that)…"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["almost", "practically"],
                "verb + smell": ["can"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to be able to notice and recognize smells",
            "sensetop": "smell something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I can't smell because I've got a bad cold."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't smell anything because I've got a bad cold.",
                    "contextForm": "smell something"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to put your nose near something and breathe in so that you can discover or identify its smell",
            "sensetop": "smell something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Smell this and tell me what you think it is."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I bent down to smell the flowers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He leaned in closer and smelled the perfume she was wearing."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "sniff",
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["almost", "practically"],
                "verb + smell": ["can"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "to have an unpleasant smell",
            "sensetop": "+ adj.",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The drains smell."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Does my breath smell?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He hadn't washed for days and was beginning to smell."
                },
                {
                    "text": "After a few days, the meat began to smell."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**It smells** in here."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It smells awful in here.",
                    "contextForm": "+ adj."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "to feel that something exists or is going to happen",
            "sensetop": "smell something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He smelt danger."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can smell trouble."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to still have a good reputation, even though you have been involved in something that might have given people a bad opinion of you",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Nobody ever knew the details and he came out of the deal smelling of roses."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "what is important is what people or things are, not what they are called",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to suspect that something is wrong about a situation",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to tell somebody to become aware of what is really happening in a situation, especially when this is something unpleasant",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/smel/",
                "audio": "sm/smell/smell__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/smelz/",
                "audio": "sm/smell/smells__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/smeld/",
                "audio": "sm/smell/smelled__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/smelt/",
                "audio": "sm/smell/smelt__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsmelɪŋ/",
                "audio": "sm/smell/smelling__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/smel/",
                "audio": "sm/smell/smell__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/smelz/",
                "audio": "sm/smell/smells__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/smeld/",
                "audio": "sm/smell/smelled__us_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/smelt/",
                "audio": "sm/smell/smelt__us_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsmelɪŋ/",
                "audio": "sm/smell/smelling__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: of unknown origin."
}