Reek vs. Smell — What's the Difference?

Smell strongly and unpleasantly; stink

The sense, located in the nasal cavities of mammals and relying on the olfactory nerves, by which molecules borne in a fluid such as air can be perceived; the olfactory sense.

A foul smell

A similar sense in other animals, as insects' ability to perceive air-borne molecules with their antennae.

Smoke

The act or an instance of smelling

To give off a strong unpleasant odor

A quality of something that is perceived by the sense of smell; an odor

To be pervaded by something unpleasant

A distinctive enveloping or characterizing quality; an aura or trace

Chiefly British To smoke, steam, or fume.

To perceive (an odor) by the sense of smell.

A strong offensive odor; a stench.

To perceive or detect (something) by a chemosensory organ, such as an antenna.

Chiefly British Smoke or vapor.

To inhale the air near (something); sniff

A strong unpleasant smell.

To detect or discover, as by intuition or inference

(Scotland) Vapour; steam; smoke; fume.

To use the sense of smell.

(Ireland) A hill; a mountain.

To sniff

(intransitive) To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.

To have or emit an odor

To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.

To have or emit an unpleasant odor; stink

To be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.

To be suggestive; have a touch of something

To emit smoke or vapour; to steam.

To appear to be dishonest or corrupt

A rick.

A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.

Vapor; steam; smoke; fume.

(physiology) The sense that detects odours.

To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale.

(transitive) To sense a smell or smells.

A distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant

Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.

Have an element suggestive (of something);

To smell bad; to stink.

Smell badly and offensively;

To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.

Be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face

To detect or perceive; often with out.

Give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc.;

(obsolete) To give heed to.

(transitive) To smell of; to have a smell of

To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate materials or qualities; to obtain the scent of; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes.

To detect or perceive, as if by the sense of smell; to scent out; - often with out.

To give heed to.

To affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or scent; - often followed by of; as, to smell of smoke, or of musk.

To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savor; as, a report smells of calumny.

To exercise the sense of smell.

To exercise sagacity.

The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense.

The quality of any thing or substance, or emanation therefrom, which affects the olfactory organs; odor; scent; fragrance; perfume; as, the smell of mint.

The sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form;

Any property detected by the olfactory system

The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people;

The faculty of smell

The act of perceiving the odor of something

Inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense

Emit an odor;

Smell bad;