Is smelt the past tense of smell?

Smelled is the past tense of smell in both North American and British English. Smelt is also used as the past tense of smell in British English. Brits use smelled and smelt interchangeably, but speakers in North America rarely use smelt.
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What are the tenses of smell?

The past tense of smell is smelled or smelt. The third-person singular simple present indicative form of smell is smells. The present participle of smell is smelling. The past participle of smell is smelled or smelt.
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How do you use smelt in a sentence?

Smelt sentence example
  1. He smelt strongly of rum. ...
  2. They also weave cloth, make pottery and smelt iron.
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Is smelt a past participle?

Smelt is a past tense and past participle of smell.
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What is the future tense of smell?

Smell Simple Future Tense

I will/shall smell. It/He/She will/shall smell. We/They/You will/shall smell.
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How do we use smell in the past?



Is smelled or smelt correct?

Smelled is the past tense of smell in both North American and British English. Smelt is also used as the past tense of smell in British English. Brits use smelled and smelt interchangeably, but speakers in North America rarely use smelt.
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What does smelt mean as a verb?

Definition of smelt (Entry 2 of 3) transitive verb. 1 : to melt or fuse (a substance, such as ore) often with an accompanying chemical change usually to separate the metal. 2 : refine, reduce.
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Is smelt an adjective?

noun, plural (especially collectively) smelt, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) smelts. any of various small, silvery food fishes of the family Osmeridae, of cold northern waters, as the North American rainbow smelt, Osmerus mordax.
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What is the past tense of smelt?

Smelt as a verb.

The past tense of to smelt is smelted.
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Who ever smelt it?

HE WHO SMELT IT, DEALT IT. He who denied it, supplied it. He who deduced it, produced it. He who attributed it, distributed it.
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What part of speech is smelt?

Smelt can be a verb or a noun.
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How do you use smelled in a sentence?

It smelled of earth and sunshine. His breath smelled of liquor. He smelled of sweat and blood. The room smelled familiar, and he realized he'd chosen her room.
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Is smelt a Scrabble word?

SMELT is a valid scrabble word.
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Is Spelt a real word?

It's true; the American English past tense form is spelled. In other varieties of English, both spelled and spelt are common. So, if you're in the United States, you would probably write it like this: The past tense of the verb “spell” can be spelled in two ways.
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Is Smilt a word?

No, smilt is not in the scrabble dictionary.
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Is smelt plural or singular?

1 smelt /ˈsmɛlt/ noun. plural smelts or smelt. 1 smelt.
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Is Swelt a word?

Swelt definition

(obsolete except dialect) To succumb or be overcome with emotion, heat, etc.; to faint or swelter.
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Is it burnt or burned?

Both burned and burnt are acceptable forms of burn. Both words can be used as adjectives, such as "burnt toast" or "burned toast," and both are acceptable as the past tense, although "burned" is more common in American English.
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What type of verb is smelled?

verb (used with object), smelled or smelt, smell·ing. to perceive the odor or scent of through the nose by means of the olfactory nerves; inhale the odor of: I smell something burning.
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What is the past and past participle of smell?

Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense smells , present participle smelling , past tense, past participle smelled , past tense, past participle smelt language note: American English usually uses the form smelled as the past tense and past participle.
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What is past tense have?

The base form of the verb is have. The present participle is having. The past tense and past participle form is had.
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