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smooth out

smooth out verb: to make smooth.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To make smooth.
  2. (intransitive) To become smooth.
  3. (figuratively, transitive) To remove irregularities or imperfections from.

Forms of smooth out

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

Questions about smooth out

What does smooth out mean?
Smooth out means to make smooth.
What part of speech is smooth out?
Smooth out is a verb.
What is the past tense of smooth out?
The past tense of smooth out is smoothed out.

Words near smooth out in the dictionary

  1. smooth muscles
  2. smooth newt
  3. smooth newts
  4. smooth operator
  5. smooth operators
  6. smooth out
  7. smooth over
  8. smooth sailing
  9. smooth shark
  10. smooth sharked
  11. smooth sharking

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