verb
Meaning 1
To make smooth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
smoothen
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈsmuːðən/
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CMU ARPABET: S M UW1 DH IH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To become smooth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
become smooth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change
verb
Meaning 4
make (a surface) shine
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- shine the silver, please
- polish my shoes
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: polish, smooth, shine
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fancify, beautify, embellish, prettify
Narrower terms: Simonize, Simonise, slick, sleek, buff, burnish, furbish, gloss
verb
Meaning 5
make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- smooth the surface of the wood
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: smooth
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change surface
Narrower terms: strip, launch, rake, plane, float, sandpaper, sand, sandblast, file
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Old English smōþ Middle English smothe Proto-West Germanic *smanþī Old English smēþe Middle English smethe English smooth English -en English smoothen From smooth + -en.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: оглаждам (oglaždam) — make smooth
- Bulgarian: изглаждам (izglaždam) — make smooth
- Choctaw: halʋsbichi — make smooth
- Danish: glatte — make smooth
- Dutch: glad maken — make smooth
- Dutch: gladstrijken — make smooth
- Dutch: afvlakken — make smooth
- Even: булби- (ʙulʙi-) — make smooth
- Finnish: silottaa — make smooth
- French: lisser — make smooth
- German: glätten — make smooth
- Hungarian: kisimít — make smooth
- Māori: whakahuene — make smooth
- Māori: whakaene — make smooth
- Māori: waru — make smooth
- Māori: hāro — make smooth
- Mongolian: өөлөх (öölöx) — make smooth
- Portuguese: alisar — make smooth
- Spanish: alisar — make smooth
- Swahili: laini — make smooth
- Bulgarian: оглаждам се (oglaždam se) — become smooth
- Dutch: glad worden — become smooth
- Dutch: afvlakken — become smooth
- Finnish: silottua — become smooth