| 单词 | smoothen |
| 释义 | smoothen (once / 176408 pages) v WORD FAMILY smoothen: smoothened, smoothening, smoothens USAGE EXAMPLES“This would smoothen the process of reporting our taxes,“ he said. Wall Street Journal(Oct 31, 2016) When the waitress comes, each man’s voice smoothens, vowels lengthening. Economist(May 05, 2016) Over time, the edges of the river tend to dredge themselves to smoothen out any sharp curves. Slate(Mar 14, 2016) 1v make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper smooth roughen make rough or rougher strip remove the thread (of screws) launchsmoothen the surface of rakelevel or smooth with a rake planemake even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane floatmake the surface of level or smooth sand, sandpaperrub with sandpaper sandblastgrind with a sandblast filesmooth with a file rough-sandsand roughly change surface undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface 2v become smooth Hyper change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 3v make (a surface) shine Syn|Hypo|Hyper polish, shine, smooth Simonise, Simonize polish with wax sleek, slickmake slick or smooth buff, burnish, furbishpolish and make shiny glossgive a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing beautify, embellish, fancify, prettify make more beautiful |
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