Usually means: Make an area smell bad.
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  1. smell up: Merriam-Webster
  2. smell up: Vocabulary.com
  3. smell up: Wiktionary
  4. smell up: Dictionary.com
  5. smell up: Rhymezone
  6. smell up: FreeDictionary.org
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Definitions from Wiktionary (smell up)

▸ verb:  (informal, transitive) To fill up with an unpleasant odour.
▸ verb:  (informal, intransitive) To have an unpleasant odour.

Similar:
stink up, stink out, smoke up, funk, smoke, bomb, besmoke, smell a rat, whiff, fume, more...

Opposite:
deodorize, freshen, purify, sanitize

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Similar:
stink up, stink out, smoke up, funk, smoke, bomb, besmoke, smell a rat, whiff, fume, more...

Opposite:
deodorize, freshen, purify, sanitize



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