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  • past tense form of smell.
  • past participle of smell.
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smelt

[smelt] / smɛlt /




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His deceit was uncovered when Helen's son smelt a rat and applied for Clare's Law, external, where you can ask if someone has a history of abusive offending.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

Look no further than GameStop’s $56 billion bid for eBay, which is the equivalent of a smelt swallowing a whale.

From The Wall Street Journal May 4, 2026

Native fish that are increasingly threatened include the finger-sized Delta smelt and white sturgeon, the largest freshwater fish in North America, which can reach more than 10 feet long.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 29, 2026

In my family, everyone new to the table — new partners, neighbors, friends — must try a smelt.

From Salon Dec. 14, 2025

Good sense stopped me from saying it, but the man smelt worst than something warm that dropped out the south end of a sick northbound goat.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis

The old heads insist on classics like smelts and baccalà, but there’s enough variety that the more “acquired taste” dishes don’t define the night.

From Salon Dec. 14, 2025

"I don't think it would have happened from any area other than Aston with all of those foundries and factories and the smelts and the bomb sites," he adds.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2025

A traditional selection includes baccala, squid, octopus, eel, shrimp, clams and smelts.

From New York Times Dec. 6, 2021

Laborers — partly fleeing potato famines in Scotland and Ireland — arrived in search of sustaining work in the flourishing iron smelts, coal and shipbuilding yards and textile factories.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 21, 2015

They were sweet as smelts, he told her.

From Minnie; or, The Little Woman A Fairy Story by Caroline Snowden Guild




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