transitive. To make smooth. Also absol.

transitive. To make smooth, to polish; to whet or sharpen.

transitive. To make (a surface or substance) smooth, even, or level; to remove or reduce the roughness, irregularity, inequality, or unevenness of…

transitive. To make smooth.

transitive. To smooth out, make smooth, take out roughness from. Obsolete.

To make smooth or smoother in some way, esp. by the removal of a difficulty.

To reduce to smoothness; to invest with a smooth unruffled appearance.

transitive. To make quite smooth.

transitive. To restore from a ruffled state; to free from folds, wrinkles, irregularities, etc.; to make still or settled. Also in figurative…

transitive. To make (a surface, substance, etc.) smooth, level, even, calm, etc.; to free from roughness or inequality. Also in extended use.

To clear of inequalities or unevennesses; to smooth, polish (wood or metal).

transitive. With away, back, down, off, out, over.

To spread out smoothly or evenly. Also, = sense 1a.