SNIFF OUT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Recognize or detect by or as if by smelling

Example:

He can smell out trouble

Synonyms:

nose out; scent out; smell out; sniff out

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

"Sniff out" entails doing...:

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

Sentence frames:

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