sniff out

English

Verb

sniff out (third-person singular simple present sniffs out, present participle sniffing out, simple past and past participle sniffed out)

1. (transitive) To find (something) by using the sense of smell.

   Because they have far more powerful noses than humans, dogs are ideal to sniff out drugs.

2. (transitive, figurative, by extension) To detect (something hidden or invisible).

Translations

find something using smell

• Arabic: يَشُمّ (yašumm), يَكْتَشِف (yaktašif), عَثَر عَلَى (ʕaṯar ʕalā)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嗅出 (xiùchū)

• Finnish: nuuskia (fi)
• Hungarian: kiszimatol (hu)
• Japanese: 嗅ぎ付ける (かぎつける, kagitsukeru)
• Polish: wywęszyć (pl) pf
• Portuguese: farejar (pt)
• Russian: выню́хивать (ru) impf (vynjúxivatʹ), вы́нюхать (ru) pf (výnjuxatʹ)

find

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 找出 (zh) (zhǎochū)

• Hungarian: kiszimatol (hu)
• Italian: trovare (it), scovare (it)
• Japanese: 嗅ぎ付ける (かぎつける, kagitsukeru)
• Portuguese: farejar (pt)
• Russian: выню́хивать (ru) impf (vynjúxivatʹ), вы́нюхать (ru) pf (výnjuxatʹ), разню́хивать (ru) impf (raznjúxivatʹ), разню́хать (ru) pf (raznjúxatʹ)