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Scent Out

Definition: Scent Out

Scent Out

Verb

1. Recognize or detect by or as if by smelling; "H can smell out trouble".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Scent Out

Synonyms: nose out (v), smell out (v), sniff out (v). (additional references)

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Use in Literature: Scent Out

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

We should scent out the truth, dig in the earth for it, and seize upon it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: Scent Out

Expression using "scent out": scent out game. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Scent Out

Language Translations for "scent out"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

ausfindig machen (discover, find, glean, hunt off, hunt up, locate, search out, seek out, to find out, trace, track down, unearth), aufspüren (ferret, flush out, search out, smell out, sniff out, to detect, to ferret, to trace, track down). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

嗅ぎ出す (to detect, to scent out), 嗅ぎ分ける (to discern, to scent out). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

かぎわける (to discern, to scent out), かぎ す (to detect, to scent out). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

entscay outay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

adulmeca vânatul (scent out game, wind). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ไ"้กลิ่น (scent, smell at). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kokusunu izlemek, iz sürmek (hound, scent, sleuth, spoor). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

пронюхати (get wind of), почути (hear, understand, wind). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Scent Out

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-n-o-s-t-t-u"

-1 letter: contest, contuse, stouten, tenutos.

-2 letters: centos, contes, counts, cutest, octets, ounces, outset, setout, tenuto, teston.

-3 letters: cento, cents, centu, cones, conte, conus, coset, cotes, count, cutes, escot, netts, notes, octet, onces, onset, ounce, scent, scone, scout, scute, seton, snout, steno, stone, stout, stunt, tents, tones, tonus, totes, touse, touts, tunes, uncos, unset.

-4 letters: cent.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-n-o-s-t-t-u"
 

+2 letters: constitute, touchstone.

 

+3 letters: constituent, constituted, constitutes, constructed, contentious, contextures, contributes, counteracts, countershot, counterstep, countersuit, countertops, countryseat, cuttlebones, deconstruct, destruction, eructations, outdistance, reconstruct, sansculotte, stonecutter, touchstones, uncontested.

 

+4 letters: autochthones, cementitious, constituency, constituents, constitutive, constructive, consultative, contemptuous, contiguities, continuities, contractures, counterblast, counterfeits, countermyths, counterparts, counterplots, countershots, counterstain, counterstate, countersteps, counterstyle, countersuits, countryseats, deconstructs, destructions, educationist, electrotonus, elocutionist, encrustation, outdistanced, outdistances, postconquest, reconstitute, reconstructs, reductionist, reluctations, sansculottes, stonecutters, stonecutting, stupefaction, subcontinent, tumefactions, unobstructed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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