Crossword clues for smoothed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smooth \Smooth\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smoothed (sm[=oo]thd); p. pr. & vb. n. Smoothing.] [OE. smothen, smethen, AS. sm[=e][eth]ian; cf. LG. sm["o]den. See Smooth, a.] To make smooth; to make even on the surface by any means; as, to smooth a board with a plane; to smooth cloth with an iron. Specifically:
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To free from obstruction; to make easy.
Thou, Abelard! the last sad office pay, And smooth my passage to the realms of day.
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To free from harshness; to make flowing.
In their motions harmony divine So smooths her charming tones that God's own ear Listens delighted.
--Milton. To palliate; to gloze; as, to smooth over a fault.
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To give a smooth or calm appearance to.
Each perturbation smoothed with outward calm.
--Milton. To ease; to regulate.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: smooth)
WordNet
adj. made smooth by ironing [syn: smoothened]
Usage examples of "smoothed".
And when he brought her hand to his cheek and smoothed it across the skin, she thought she knew exactly why.
Charlotte smoothed the leather cover of her newest, most precious acquisition.
Fat smoothed the lines from her face, and she jiggled when she giggled.
He smoothed his palms between her breasts and down her belly to cover her hipbones.
Instead she fussed with her dress, and smoothed the coverlet on the bed.
Adan smoothed their hair and kept their faces pressed against his chest.
It was the mounds smoothed by rains but barely covered by grass that stabbed him.
In front of the shadows, Amys stood with another woman atop a wide gray boulder, its top smoothed for a platform.
Letting her skirts fall, she smoothed them and fell in beside Rand, lifting her shawl around her head.
Tony and Rachel were located in their respective places marked in the floor, and while a maquillador passed a little of dust over the sudorosa forehead of Tony and a vestidora smoothed the blouse of the dress of Rachel, Zack began to make its habitual summary of the scene that were about to to film.
Until that moment, at which she was witness of the change that took place in him when thinking that the confidence that it had to him she was infundada, Julie had not realized of to what extent it had been smoothed from the previous day.
One hand stole beneath her head to turn the sweat-stained pillow facedown upon mattress, while her other hand smoothed her hair.
Her hair was newly smoothed, her skirt free of ice, and her oilskin fastened tightly all the way down to her knees.
The sheets of ice floating upon its surface were as black as night, smoothed to glass by the continuous movements of river currents and wind.
Eyeing me, Trent adjusted his gray linen suit and smoothed his wispy hair as if daring me to say anything.