Dictionary Entry
sniff
sniff is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; -- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 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 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; -- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt.
- 2transitive verb
To draw in with the breath through the nose; as, to sniff the air of the country.
- 3transitive verb
To perceive as by sniffing; to snuff, to scent; to smell; as, to sniff danger.
- 4noun
The act of sniffing; perception by sniffing; that which is taken by sniffing; as, a sniff of air.
- 5noun
sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose
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- 6verb
inhale audibly through the nose
"the sick student was sniffling in the back row"
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- 7verb
perceive by inhaling through the nose
"sniff the perfume"
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