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smooth down

smooth down verb: to render smooth, to remove roughness from.

Verb

smooth down (third-person singular simple present smooths down, present participle smoothing down, simple past and past participle smoothed down)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To render smooth, to remove roughness from
    • She smoothed her nails down with a file.
    • In a moment Kate was on her feet, smoothing her dress down1922, Frank Harris, “X”, in My Life and Loves

Forms of smooth down

third-person singular presentsmooths down
present participlesmoothing down
past participlesmoothed down
pastsmoothed down

Questions about smooth down

What does smooth down mean?
Smooth down means to render smooth, to remove roughness from.
What part of speech is smooth down?
Smooth down is a verb.
What is the past tense of smooth down?
The past tense of smooth down is smoothed down.

Words near smooth down in the dictionary

  1. smooth calling
  2. smooth calls
  3. smooth clam
  4. smooth clams
  5. smooth cordgrass
  6. smooth down
  7. smooth endoplasmic reticulum
  8. smooth fox terrier
  9. smooth fox terriers
  10. smooth function
  11. smooth functions

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