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Besmall vs Besmell - What's the difference?

besmall | besmell |

As verbs the difference between besmall and besmell

is that besmall is to make small; to make as though small while besmell is to smell out; sniff about, around, or all over; investigate or check by smelling; detect a smell or a scent.

besmall

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make small; (figuritively) to make as though small.
  • *1974 , Pacific islands monthly:
    • And loneliness balked my pride, my innate pride, my integral native being, besmalling me all the more, until I couldn't remember myself the way I did last year and the years before.
  • *1984 , Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, Bikmaus :
    • "Weariness too faltered my conscience . . . besmalling me."
  • *2000 , Ed. Manmohan K. Bhatnagar, Twentieth Century Literature in English :
    • The besmalled position shocks Tusker to fell sick for a long time and finally die when he is asked to vacate the Lodge.

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    besmell

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (emphatic) To smell out; sniff about, around, or all over; investigate or check by smelling; detect a smell or a scent.
  • *1708 , Michael Bruce, Good news in evil times for fainting believers :
    • I'll tell you News, Sirs, I carry a little Muist-box (which is the Word of GOD) in my Bosom, and when I meet with the ill Air of ill company, that's like to gar me Swarf, I besmell my self with the 'sweet lavour of it, and with the Name ...
  • *2012 , George R.R. Washington, Alan Goldsher, A Game of Groans: A Sonnet of Slush and Soot :
    • Juan positioned himself by the side of the building, peeked through an open window, and found the feast a sight to behold, and a scent to besmell .