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SCENT OUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does scent out mean?
• SCENT OUT (verb)
The verb SCENT OUT has 1 sense:
1. recognize or detect by or as if by smelling
Familiarity information: SCENT OUT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Recognize or detect by or as if by smelling
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
nose out; scent out; smell out; sniff out
Context example:
He can smell out trouble
"Scent out" entails doing...:
smell (inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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