"smelling" meaning in English

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        "present participle and gerund of smell"
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          "text": "foul-smelling (having a foul smell)"
        },
        {
          "text": "sweet-smelling (having a sweet smell)"
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        "Used in adjectival compounds."
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      "ipa": "/ˈsmɛlɪŋ/"
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      "rhymes": "-ɛlɪŋ"
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  "word": "smelling"
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          "text": "To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]",
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        "The act by which something is smelled."
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      "ipa": "/ˈsmɛlɪŋ/"
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  "word": "smelling"
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      "ipa": "/ˈsmɛlɪŋ/"
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  "word": "smelling"
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        "The act by which something is smelled."
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