smelling
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsmɛlɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ
Verb
smelling
- present participle of smell
- Used in adjectival compounds.
- foul-smelling (having a foul smell)
- sweet-smelling (having a sweet smell)
Derived terms
- smelling salts
Noun
smelling (plural smellings)
- The act by which something is smelled.
- 2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus, page 73:
- To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]
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Anagrams
- Mellings