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Definition of Smell up
1. Verb. Cause to smell bad; fill with a bad smell.
Definition of Smell up
1. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) to fill up with an unpleasant odour ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic intransitive) to have an unpleasant odour ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smell Up
Literary usage of Smell up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Modern English Verb-adverb Combination by Arthur Garfield Kennedy (1920)
"... scuff up, shape up, shine up, skin up, slash up, slick up, slosh up, smear
up, smell up, smoke up, smooth up, snarl up, sober up, spatter up, splash up, ..."
2. The Official Record of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts: Together by John Mason Tyler, John P. Squire, George C. Burpee, W. O. Robson, Massachusetts State Board of Health, State Board of Health, Massachusetts (1874)
"A. They have smelt a smell up in the attic of the house. Q. He sleeps up there ?
A. I have three boys sleeping there. Q. Which of them has been affected ? ..."
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