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smoothing out

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

Meaning of smooth out

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.

Questions about smoothing out

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

Words near smoothing out in the dictionary

  1. smoothing
  2. smoothing away
  3. smoothing down
  4. smoothing iron
  5. smoothing irons
  6. smoothing out
  7. smoothing over
  8. smoothing someone's feathers
  9. smoothing up
  10. smoothingly
  11. smoothings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: smoothing out (page history and authors); smooth out (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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