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SNIFF OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Recognize or detect by or as if by smelling
Example:
He can smell out trouble
Synonyms:
nose out; scent out; smell out; sniff out
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
"Sniff out" entails doing...:
smell (inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
