[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to perceive the odor or scent of through the nose by means of the olfactory nerves; inhale the odor of:I smell something burning.", "to test by the sense of smell:She smelled the meat to see if it was fresh.", "to perceive, detect, or discover by shrewdness or sagacity:The detective smelled foul play."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to perceive something by its odor or scent.", "to search or investigate (followed byaroundorabout).", "to give off or have an odor or scent:Do the yellow roses smell?", "to give out an offensive odor; stink.", "to have a particular odor (followed byof):My hands smell of fish.", "to have a trace or suggestion (followed byof).", "Informal.to be of inferior quality; stink:The play is good, but the direction smells.", "Informal.to have the appearance or a suggestion of guilt or corruption:They may be honest, but the whole situation smells."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the sense of smell; faculty of smelling.", "the quality of a thing that is or may be smelled; odor; scent.", "a trace or suggestion.", "an act or instance of smelling.", "a pervading appearance, character, quality, or influence:the smell of money."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["to look for or detect as if by smelling; search out:to smell out enemy spies.", "to fill with an offensive odor; stink up:The garbage smelled up the yard."]}]