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sniff

 
 
/snɪf/ verb

Translation

BREATHE [I] to breathe air in through your nose in a way that makes a noise
burnunu çekmek
Sam had a cold and she kept sniffing.577585
SMELL [I, T] to breathe air in through your nose in order to smell something
burnunu çekerek kutlamak
She sniffed the flowers.1094
sniff noun [C]
burnunu çekme
(Definition of sniff verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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