Translations for „smelling“ in the English » Polish Dictionary

smelling salts N pl MED

smelling salts

sole fpl trzeźwiące

I . smell <smelt, smelt [or AM -ed, -ed]> [smel] VB intr

1. smell (use sense of smell):

smell

wąchać [perf po-]

I can't smell

nic nie czuję

2. smell (give off odour):

smell

pachnieć [perf za-]

to smell of [or like] sth

pachnieć czymś

3. smell (stink):

smell

śmierdzieć [perf za-]

Phrases:

to smell fishy

podejrzanie pachnieć

to come up smelling of roses

pozostać świeżym jak poranek

II . smell <smelt, smelt [or AM -ed, -ed]> [smel] VB trans

1. smell (recognize smell):

smell

czuć [perf po-]

2. smell (breathe in):

smell

wąchać [perf po-]

Phrases:

to smell blood

zwietrzyć krew

to smell sth a mile off

zwietrzyć coś na kilometr

to smell a rat

poczuć pismo nosem

III . smell [smel] N

1. smell (sense of smelling):

smell

węch m

smell

powonienie nt

2. smell (odour):

smell

zapach m

3. smell pej (bad odour):

smell

smród m

4. smell (sniff):

to have a smell of sth

powąchać coś

smell out VB trans

1. smell out a. fig (find):

smell out

wywęszyć

2. smell out pej (cause to smell bad):

smell out

wypełniać [perf wypełnić] brzydkim zapachem

Usage examples with smelling

to come up smelling of roses

pozostać świeżym jak poranek

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Many offered smelling salts to women who fainted midcut.

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They are popular vespertines (evening bloomers), their sweet-smelling flowers opening in the evening to be visited by hawkmoths and other pollinators.

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They take him away, embalm his remains with sweet-smelling ointments and bury him.

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If handled, these snakes will musk a victim by releasing the foul-smelling contents of their cloaca, and will bite if necessary.

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He is also splendidly uninhibited in a series of ridiculous disguises that would have a method actor reaching for his smelling salts.

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They've come a long way from smelling salts.

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Dark, slightly bitter chocolate smelling, inky and sumptuous with lots of dark, cuddly fruit.

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The smelling salts worked at once, in fact, and he came round with his appetite sharpened.

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Lose the garlic and pass the smelling salts.

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Everything else was a sort of thick, sleepy stillness smelling of meadow-sweet and dry grass.

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