SMOOTHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does smoothed mean? 

• SMOOTHED (adjective)
  The adjective SMOOTHED has 1 sense:

1. made smooth by ironing

  Familiarity information: SMOOTHED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMOOTHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made smooth by ironing

Synonyms:

smoothed; smoothened

Similar:

ironed ((of linens or clothes) smoothed with a hot iron)

 Context examples 

Many vain solicitudes would be prevented—many awkwardnesses smoothed by it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

My aunt dismissed the matter with a heavy sigh, and smoothed her dress.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Three years had certainly not smoothed the asperities of his temper or his impatience with a less active intelligence than his own.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our client smoothed down his unbrushed hair and felt his unshaven chin.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy: but her manners were excellent.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The researchers believe Ceres once had more pronounced surface features, but they have smoothed out over time.

(Dawn Finds Possible Ancient Ocean Remnants at Ceres, NASA)

Jo put her hand in his as he said that, and Laurie gently smoothed the little red pillow, which he remembered well.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I knelt down by him; I turned his face from the cushion to me; I kissed his cheek; I smoothed his hair with my hand.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Tom was enjoying such an advance towards the end; Edmund was in spirits from the morning's rehearsal, and little vexations seemed everywhere smoothed away.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In a thousand ways he smoothed for me the path of knowledge and made the most abstruse inquiries clear and facile to my apprehension.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)