pungent smell

collocation in English

meaningsofpungentandsmell

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pungent
adjective
uk
/ˈpʌn.dʒənt/us
/ˈpʌn.dʒənt/
smelling or tasting very strong ...
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smell
noun
uk
/smel/us
/smel/
the characteristic of something that can be recognized or noticed using ...
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(Definition ofpungentandsmellfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It has a verypungentsmell.
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Often, the meat is detected by nothing more than itspungentsmell.
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If she had, thepungentsmellof roast cleric might be wafting up our nostrils now.
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Hexafluorosilicic acid has a distinctive sour taste andpungentsmell.
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The flower gives off apungentsmellthat attracts flies.
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The air is full of thepungentsmellof horse manure rather than the acrid stench of incineration.
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Thepungentsmellprotects it by repelling many would-be feeders.
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It has apungentsmelland its vapor can cause violent headaches.
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It has a sweet and mildlypungentsmellsimilar to black licorice.
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It is a pale blue gas with a distinctivelypungentsmell.
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It volatilizes readily at room temperature and has apungentsmell.
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Sodium bifluoride is non-flammable, hygroscopic, and has apungentsmell.
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Subsequently, the gleba becomes olivaceous, olive-brown, and finally dark olive when dry, and then develops a characteristicpungentsmell.
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Thepungentsmelland the fact that the flies could not access the body created this swarm.
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The fabrication process involves boiling, cleaning and then packing away to ferment - the fermentation process giving it apungentsmell.
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The device was not very successful, and the gas being burned was impure and emitted apungentsmell.
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It is a colorless liquid with apungentsmelland taste that is soluble in most organic solvents.
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Others find arousal in sniffing the sour andpungentsmellof soles made by excessive sweat when in pantyhose.
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Its fruit have apungentsmell, and the plant can be smelled from some distance away when the fruit are ripe.
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Oil, of course, has a much morepungentsmellthan sewage, but when the smell of oil has been eliminated from our beaches the smell of sewage will remain.
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Other special effects include binaural sound, simulated laser cannons and apungentsmell(that of a chilidog, which lampoons the rule about bringing food and drink into the theater).
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