scented
SaySENT-id/ˈsɛntɪd/
- 1Made to smell nice by adding perfume.
She lit a scented candle in the bathroom.
The hotel left little bars of scented soap by the sink.
Similarperfumed
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- 2Having a nice smell.
We walked through a cool, scented pine forest.
This rose is more scented than the red one next to it.
Similarfragrant, perfumed, sweet-smelling, aromatic
- 3Past tense and past participle of scent. Use it for something that already happened.
Our dog scented a cat and started barking.
Mom scented the closet with bags of dried lavender.
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- 4Smelling of something, good or bad. It is used after another word, as in garlic-scented.
The kitchen was full of garlic-scented steam.
Grandpa's old coat had a smoke-scented collar.
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scented is a form of scent
scent, verb: To notice something by smelling it. Full entry
- Spelling
- scent → scented: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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