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say it: SMEL-ing
smelling is a noun and adjective meaning "the act of perceiving the odor of something". It is pronounced /ˈsmɛlɪŋ/ — SMEL-ing. It carries 2 recorded senses.
(used with `of' or `with') noticeably odorous
“the hall was redolent of floor wax”
“air redolent with the fumes of beer and whiskey”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for smelling come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.