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SCENT OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scent out mean? 

SCENT OUT (verb)
  The verb SCENT OUT has 1 sense:

1. recognize or detect by or as if by smellingplay

  Familiarity information: SCENT OUT used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SCENT OUT (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Recognize or detect by or as if by smelling

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

nose out; scent out; smell out; sniff out

Context example:

He can smell out trouble

"Scent out" entails doing...:

smell (inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody


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