sniff out

English

Verb

sniff 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 على
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嗅出 (xiùchū)

• Finnish: nuuskia (fi)
• Hungarian: kiszimatol (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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)