smiled

Verb

smile (third-person singular simple present smiles, present participle smiling, simple past and past participle smiled)

1. (ambitransitive) To have (a smile) on one's face.
   • When you smile, the whole world smiles with you.
2. (transitive) To express by smiling.
   • to smile consent, or a welcome
3. (intransitive) To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness.
   • When last I saw thy young blue eyes, they smiled.1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza I
4. (intransitive) To look cheerful and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy.
   • The sun smiled down from a clear summer sky.
5. (intransitive) To be propitious or favourable; to countenance.
   • The gods smiled on his labours.
6. (intransitive) Of ackee fruit: to open fully, indicating that it is no longer toxic, and ready to be picked.
   • The fruit looks a bit like a large pink mango or guava, until it has ripened. Then it “smiles,” bursting open, exposing yellow meat with black seeds.2003, Jessica B. Harris, Beyond Gumbo: Creole Fusion Food from the Atlantic Rim, page 20

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