# scented

Pronunciation: say "SENT-id" /ˈsɛntɪd/

## Adjective

1. Having perfume added to give it a particular smell.
   - Simple: Made to smell nice by adding perfume.
   - _People with allergies often avoid scented laundry detergent._
   - _He wrote to her on pale blue scented paper._
2. Having a pleasant smell; fragrant.
   - Simple: Having a nice smell.
   - _Warm, scented air drifted in from the orange grove._
   - _The scented blossoms of the jasmine filled the whole yard at night._
4. Having a smell of any kind, pleasant or not; used chiefly in combinations such as skunk-scented.
   - Simple: Smelling of something, good or bad. It is used after another word, as in garlic-scented.
   - _Rotten-egg-scented gas bubbled up from the hot spring._
   - _Hikers learn not to crush the plant's foul-scented leaves._

## Verb

3. Past tense and past participle of scent. — simple past and past participle of scent
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of scent. Use it for something that already happened.
   - _The wolves scented the deer from across the valley._
   - _The opposition scented victory as the polls turned in its favor._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/scented (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).