"smell" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

smell verbo

smell + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 70

smell smoke • smell blood • smell one's perfume • smell a rat • smell salts • smell the odor • smell the scent • smell one's breath • ...

verbo + smell

Kolokacji: 4

begin to smell • start smelling • report smelling • stop smelling

smell + preposición

Kolokacji: 16

smell out • smell of • smell from • smell on • smell in • ...

smell + adjetivo/adverbio

Kolokacji: 63

smell good • smell bad • smell sweet • smell faintly • smell fresh • smell strongly • ...

frequent collocations

Kolokacji: 11

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 12

(1) good, bad, great, wrong, terrible, ...

Kolokacji: 11

(2) sweet, sweetly, lovely

Kolokacji: 3

(3) faintly, actually, vaguely, slightly, better, ...

Kolokacji: 9

(4) fresh, clean, musty, strong, stale, ...

Kolokacji: 7

1. smell fresh = zapach świeży smell fresh

smell fresher

2. smell clean = zapach czysty smell clean

3. smell musty = zapach pachnący stęchlizną smell musty

4. smell strong = zapach silny smell strong

5. smell stale = zapach czerstwy smell stale

The classroom air smelled old and stale - the atmosphere of tombs.
It smelled stale and old like a living room that had been closed too long.
He entered the room, which as before smelled stale and rancid.
The house had started to smell old and stale.
The air smelled musty and stale, as if death lingered in the walls of this place.
The air in the capsule already smelled hot and stale.
The place smelled stale and musty, like the mausoleum it was.
Some of the rooms smelled stale and musty, as if nobody had been in them for years.
It smelled musty and stale, as if it had been closed for several days.
Here, where they were building the barracks, there had been a camp; and the place was still smelling stale enough.

6. smell old = zapach stary smell old

7. smell warm = zapach ciepły smell warm

(5) strongly, powerfully

Kolokacji: 2

(6) nice, delicious, awful, suddenly, pleasantly, ...

Kolokacji: 11

(7) wonderful, strange, odd, exactly, peculiar

Kolokacji: 5

(8) different, differently

Kolokacji: 2

(9) funny, fishy, right, suspiciously, sure

Kolokacji: 5

(10) sour, rancid, fragrant

Kolokacji: 3

(11) damp, dank, wet

Kolokacji: 3

(12) appetizing, pungent

Kolokacji: 2

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