exhale vs smell

exhale

noun
  • An exhalation. 

verb
  • To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapour. 

  • To pass off in the form of vapour; to emerge. 

  • To expel (something, such as tobacco smoke) from the lungs by action of the diaphragm. 

  • To expel air from the lungs through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm, to breathe out. 

  • To emit (a vapour, an odour, etc.). 

smell

noun
  • A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance. 

  • A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate. 

  • The sense that detects odours. 

verb
  • To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour. 

  • To smell bad; to stink. 

  • To detect or perceive; often with out. 

  • Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad. 

  • To sense a smell or smells. 

  • To smell of; to have a smell of 

How often have the words exhale and smell occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )