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smoothing down

smoothing down is the present participle and gerund of smooth down.

Meaning of smooth down

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.

Questions about smoothing down

What is smoothing down the present participle and gerund of?
Smoothing down is the present participle and gerund of smooth down.

Words near smoothing down in the dictionary

  1. smoothifies
  2. smoothify
  3. smoothifying
  4. smoothing
  5. smoothing away
  6. smoothing down
  7. smoothing iron
  8. smoothing irons
  9. smoothing out
  10. smoothing over
  11. smoothing someone's feathers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: smoothing down (page history and authors); smooth down (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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