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smelt

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++smelt1 /smelt/ British English  x-refa past tense and past participle of smell smell 的过去式和过去分词
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smeltAnd also with horror, for she had never sat close to men who smelt before.The room was warm and smelt musty.It smelt of camphor as if the old clothes hanging on the racks had just been taken out of ancient chests.She smelt of dried flowers and pepper.He smelt of outdoors and of secret barley sugar.His hands smelt strongly of perfumed soap.
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smelt2 verb [transitive]  TIto melt a rock that contains metal in order to remove the metal 熔炼,提炼,炼取〔矿石〕
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Examples from the Corpus
smeltHe thoroughly understood the operations of copper smelting.And also with horror, for she had never sat close to men who smelt before.The room was warm and smelt musty.It smelt of camphor as if the old clothes hanging on the racks had just been taken out of ancient chests.She smelt of dried flowers and pepper.He smelt of outdoors and of secret barley sugar.Telecom and smelting shares pulled down the broader Topix index of all shares on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.His hands smelt strongly of perfumed soap.
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smelt
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smelt1 /smelt/ British English
a past tense and past participle of smell

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smelt2 verb [transitive]
to melt a rock that contains metal in order to remove the metal


smeltBrE /smelt/ 🔊NAmE /smelt/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they smelt BrE /smelt/ 🔊 NAmE /smelt/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it smelts BrE /smelts/ 🔊 NAmE /smelts/ 🔊past simple smelted BrE /ˈsmeltɪd/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈsmeltɪd/ 🔊past participle smelted BrE /ˈsmeltɪd/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈsmeltɪd/ 🔊 -ing form smelting BrE /ˈsmeltɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈsmeltɪŋ/ 🔊~ sth to heat and melt ore (= rock that contains metal) in order to obtain the metal it contains 熔炼;提炼(金属)a method of smelting iron一种炼铁方法   see also smell verb