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unsmoothing

unsmoothing is the present participle and gerund of unsmooth.

Meaning of unsmooth

Verb

unsmooth (third-person singular simple present unsmooths, present participle unsmoothing, simple past and past participle unsmoothed)

  1. (transitive) To make no longer smooth; to roughen or furrow.
    • Her face gathers, furrows, glooms; arching eyebrows wrinkle into horizontals, and a tinge of bitterness unsmooths the cheek and robs the lip of sweetened grace. She is evidently perturbed.1882, W. Marshall, Strange Chapman, volume 2, page 170

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Questions about unsmoothing

What is unsmoothing the present participle and gerund of?
Unsmoothing is the present participle and gerund of unsmooth.

Words near unsmoothing in the dictionary

  1. unsmooched
  2. unsmooth
  3. unsmoothable
  4. unsmoothed
  5. unsmoothened
  6. unsmoothing
  7. unsmoothly
  8. unsmoothness
  9. unsmooths
  10. unsmote
  11. unsmother

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsmoothing (page history and authors); unsmooth (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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