smell out

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verb

1. recognize or detect by or as if by smelling
- He can smell out trouble
• Syn:
sniff out, scent out, nose out
• Entailment:
smell
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
2. become aware of not through the senses but instinctively
- I sense his hostility
- i smell trouble
- smell out corruption
• Syn:
smell, sense
• Derivationally related forms:
sensible (for: sense), sensitive (for: sense), sense (for: sense)
• Hypernyms:
perceive
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE