| VERB | contact | smoothen, smooth | make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing |
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| contact | smoothen, polish, smooth, shine | make (a surface) shine | |
| change | smoothen | become smooth |
| Sounds | smuw'dhihn | |
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| Rhymes | Adrenalin ... zeppelin / Zeppelin: 223 rhymes with ihn... | |
| Meaning | make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Synonym | smooth | |
| Entails | rub | Move over something with pressure |
| Entailed by | strickle, strike | Smooth with a strickle |
| Narrower | file | Smooth with a file |
| float | make the surface of level or smooth | |
| launch | smoothen the surface of | |
| plane | make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane | |
| rake | Level or smooth with a rake | |
| sandblast | grind with a sandblast | |
| sandpaper, sand | rub with sandpaper | |
| strip | Remove the thread (of screws) | |
| Broader | change surface | Undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface |
| Opposite | roughen | make rough or rougher |
| Spanish | alisar, suavizar | |
| Catalan | assuaujar, assuavir, polir, suavitzar | |
| Meaning | make (a surface) shine. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Model | They smoothen the glass tubes | |
| Synonyms | polish, smooth, shine | |
| Entails | rub | Move over something with pressure |
| Narrower | Simonize, Simonise | polish with wax |
| buff, burnish, furbish | polish and make shiny | |
| gloss | Give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing | |
| slick, sleek | make slick or smooth | |
| Broader | fancify, beautify, embellish, prettify | make more beautiful |
| Spanish | abrillantar, acicalar, bruñir, cepillar, lustrar, pulir | |
| Catalan | brunyir, enllustrar, llustrar, lustrar, polir, raspallar | |
| Meaning | Become smooth. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Broader | change | Undergo a change |
| Catalan | allisar, suavitzar | |
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