Dictionary Entry
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.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.
- 2transitive verb
To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume.
- 3intransitive verb
To have a smell.
- 4intransitive verb
To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
The power of smelling; the sense of smell; as, a hound of nice scent; to divert the scent.
- 8noun
any property detected by the olfactory system
- 9noun
an odor left in passing by which a person or animal can be traced
- 10noun
a distinctive odor that is pleasant
- 11verb
apply perfume to
"She perfumes herself every day"
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- 12verb
catch the scent of; get wind of
"The dog nosed out the drugs"
- 13verb
cause to smell or be smelly
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