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smell up

vb. 1 (context idiomatic transitive English) to fill up with an unpleasant odour 2 (context idiomatic intransitive English) to have an unpleasant odour

WordNet
smell up

v. cause to smell bad; fill with a bad smell [syn: stink up, stink out]

Usage examples of "smell up".

Though it smelled strongly of sulfur from the moat of fire, the smell up here was better than what he'd smelled below.

They didn't tell me they was going to do the other, they didn't tell me the damn gas was going to smell up the place, they didn't tell me they was coming in after 'im and all—.

There was a rank smell up here, and the sound of more than one presence on the other side of the door.

The flames licked up greedily from my gym trunks to the lunch bags and candy wrappers to the ruins of my books, carrying a sweaty, athletic smell up to me.

We went on down the shaft, with the loose hornfels muttering all around us, and that soft roaring sound in our ears, and that smell up our noses.

Petrie in particular that since he continues to smell up our division by living here, if he&rsquo.

She blew her nose sharply, turned away gazing out over the pond, caught herself with a sniff people will string up long underwear and smell up your house with oh, Lily.