scent
scent is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.
- transitive verb. To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume.
- intransitive verb. To have a smell.
- intransitive verb. To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
- noun. That which, issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; odor; smell; as, the scent of an orange, or of a rose; the scent of musk.
- noun. Specifically, the odor left by an animal on the ground in passing over it; as, dogs find or lose the scent; hence, course of pursuit; track of discovery.
- noun. The power of smelling; the sense of smell; as, a hound of nice scent; to divert the scent.
- noun. any property detected by the olfactory system
- noun. an odor left in passing by which a person or animal can be traced
- noun. a distinctive odor that is pleasant
- verb. apply perfume to
"She perfumes herself every day"
- verb. catch the scent of; get wind of
"The dog nosed out the drugs"
- verb. cause to smell or be smelly
Synonyms
aroma, odor, odour, smell, fragrance, perfume, nose, wind, odorize, odourise
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in scent:
Common word forms
scents, scented, scenter, scentful, scenting, scentless
Words from these letters
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