Related / Similar Words:
polish, smoothen, shine, smooth out, uncrannied, politic, suave, flowing, fluent, fluid, liquid, unwrinkled, legato Definition: the act of smoothing; "he gave his hair a quick smooth";(of surfaces) make shine; "shine the silver, please"; "polish my shoes";make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing; "smooth the surface of the wood";free from obstructions; "smooth the way towards peace negociations";without chinks or crannies;lacking obstructions or difficulties; "the bill''s path through the legislature was smooth and orderly";smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"; "the hostess averted a confrontation between two guests with a diplomatic change of subject"; "the manager pacified the custom;smooth and unconstrained in movement; "a long, smooth stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid grace of a ballerina"; "liquid prose";having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities; "smooth skin"; "a smooth tabletop"; "smooth fabric"; "a smooth road"; "water as smooth as a mirror";not marked with wrinkles; "unwrinkled cheeks";of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth;without breaks between notes; smooth and connected; "a legato passage";
See Also: gloss over, skate over, smooth over, slur over, skimp over, even, fine, ironed, slippery, slippy, simple, unsubdivided, compound Hyponyms: Simonize, Simonise, slick, sleek, buff, burnish, furbish, flush, gloss, strip, launch, rake, plane, float, sandpaper, sand, sandblast, file Entailments: rub Derivational Morphology:
smoothen, shining, polishing, polish, gloss, glossiness, burnish, buffer, polisher, drum sander, electric sander, sander, smoother
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