Noun
- 1. smelt, fish
- usage: small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water
- 2. smelt, soft-finned fish, malacopterygian
- usage: small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters
Verb
- 1. smelt, produce, make, create
- usage: extract (metals) by heating
Verb
- 1. smelt, produce, make, create
- usage: inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense
- 2. smell, perceive, comprehend
- usage: emit an odor; "The soup smells good"
- 3. smell, cause to be perceived
- usage: smell bad; "He rarely washes, and he smells"
- 4. smell, smell
- usage: have an element suggestive (of something); "his speeches smacked of racism"; "this passage smells of plagiarism"
- 5. smack, reek, smell, suggest, evoke, paint a picture
- usage: become aware of not through the senses but instinctively; "I sense his hostility"; "i smell trouble"; "smell out corruption"
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