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All sniff synonyms

sniff
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verb sniff

  • get wind of — hear rumours of
  • mewled — to cry, as a baby, young child, or the like; whimper.
  • let go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • keening — a wailing lament for the dead.
  • boohoo — to sob or pretend to sob noisily
  • insufflate — to blow or breathe (something) in.
  • break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
  • boohooing — to weep noisily; blubber.
  • mewling — to cry, as a baby, young child, or the like; whimper.
  • nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
  • mousing — a wrapping of several turns of small stuff around the shank end of a hook.
  • cry — When you cry, tears come from your eyes, usually because you are unhappy or hurt.
  • breathe — When people or animals breathe, they take air into their lungs and let it out again. When they breathe smoke or a particular kind of air, they take it into their lungs and let it out again as they breathe.
  • let out — (of fur) processed by cutting parallel diagonal slashes into the pelt and sewing the slashed edges together to lengthen the pelt and to improve the appearance of the fur.
  • draw in — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
  • inhale — to breathe in; draw in by breathing: to inhale the polluted air.
  • blub — If someone blubs, they cry because they are unhappy or frightened.
  • mewl — to cry, as a baby, young child, or the like; whimper.

noun sniff

  • draught — a drawing, sketch, or design.
  • drafts — Plural form of draft.
  • draughts — a drawing, sketch, or design.
  • whiff — any of several flatfishes having both eyes on the left side of the head, of the genus Citharichthys, as C. cornutus (horned whiff) inhabiting Atlantic waters from New England to Brazil.
  • inhalation — an act or instance of inhaling.
  • lungful — As much as the lungs will hold.
  • flatus — intestinal gas produced by bacterial action on waste matter in the intestines and composed primarily of hydrogen sulfide and varying amounts of methane.
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