smell vs stink

smell

verb
  • To smell bad; to stink. 

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

  • 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 

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

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

  • The sense that detects odours. 

stink

verb
  • To cause to stink; to affect by a stink. 

  • To be greatly inferior; to perform badly. 

  • To give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin. 

  • To have a strong bad smell. 

adj
  • Bad; inferior; worthless. 

  • Bad-smelling, stinky. 

noun
  • A complaint or objection. 

  • A strong bad smell. 

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