Smell and Trail

Smell

Smell noun - The quality of a thing that makes it perceptible to the sense organs in the nose.

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Trail and smell are semantically related. in odor topic. In some cases you can use "Trail" instead a noun "Smell".

Nearby Words: smelly, smelt, smelling, smeller

Trail noun - A rough course or way formed by or as if by repeated footsteps.

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Smell and trail are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Smell" instead a noun "Trail".

Nearby Words: trailed, trailer, trailing

burning	burning smell	burning trail
nice	nice smell	nice trail
distinctive	distinctive smell	distinctive trail
better	better smell	better trail
Other adjectives: similar, usual, right, nasty, distinct, poisonous.

The Hound is set on the trail by the smell of Sir Henry's boot, and understandably mistakes Seldon for its real target because of the clothes' odor.

Source: Literature / The Hound of the Baskervilles
However, they can not smell blood that is dropped into the water any distance away until the currents create a trail the shark can actually pick up and follow.

Source: Trail of Blood
In Devon Monk's Allie Beckstrom novel Magic To the Bone, Allie recounts how, to throw a Hound off your trail, you need to avoid using magic and cover up your smell with something else stinky.

Source: They Have the Scent

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