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SCENTS
✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
ENABLE1 ✓
Classic
3
pts
Big
3
pts
Super Big
3
pts
SCENTS is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.
SCENTS root SCENT-s
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noun
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countableuncountableA distinctive smell.
- the scent of flowers / of a skunk
- to give off / release / exude a scent
- to breathe in / inhale a scent
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countableuncountableA smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing.
- The dogs picked up / caught the scent but then quickly lost it.
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countableuncountableThe sense of smell.
- I believe the bloodhound has the best scent of all dogs.
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uncountableA substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell.
- a scent shop
- a scent bazaar
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countablefigurativelyuncountableAny trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
- The minister's off-hand remark put journalists on the scent of a cover-up.
- The tip put the detectives on a false scent / the wrong scent.
- to pick up a scent / get scent of something
- to throw / put someone off the scent
- countableobsoleteuncountableSense, perception.
verb
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transitiveTo detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell.
- The hounds scented the fox in the woods.
- ambitransitiveTo inhale in order to detect the scent of (something).
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figurativelytransitiveTo have a suspicion of; to detect the possibility of (something).
- I scented trouble when I saw them running down the hill towards me.
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transitiveTo impart an odour to, to cause to have a particular smell.
- Scent the air with burning sage before you begin your meditation.
- intransitiveobsoleteTo have a smell; (figuratively) to give an impression (of something).
- To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.