SNIFF
\snˈɪf], \snˈɪf], \s_n_ˈɪ_f]\
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To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; -- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt.
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To draw in with the breath through the nose; as, to sniff the air of the country.
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To perceive as by sniffing; to snuff, to scent; to smell; as, to sniff danger.
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The act of sniffing; perception by sniffing; that which is taken by sniffing; as, a sniff of air.
By Oddity Software
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To draw in the breath audibly through the nose, often as an expression of contempt.
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To smell or scent; as, to sniff danger.
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The act of smelling; an audible, often scornful, drawing in of the breath through the nose.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To draw in with the breath through the nose.
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To snuff or draw in air sharply through the nose: to snuff: to scent.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman