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Definition of Smoothed
1. Adjective. Made smooth by ironing.
Definition of Smoothed
1. Verb. (past of smooth) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Smoothed
1. smooth [v] - See also: smooth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smoothed
Literary usage of Smoothed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1874)
"... rply angular like newly-fallen debris at the base of a cliff; but n to be like
the latter in general shape with the sharp corners and es smoothed away. ..."
2. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1885)
"The iet- woni hummocks of gneiss at the Thousand Islands still retain their
characteristic smoothed and polished surface down to and beneath th- surface of ..."
3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1849)
"I admit most readily the more extensive and voluminous glaciers of ancient times,
but suggest that blocks have been carried, and fixed surfaces smoothed, ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Then she deliberately smoothed the table-cover, which did not really need smoothing,
and at last inquired in her dry acid tones — "Now, you know all about ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The inscription was originally in forty-nine columns, of which five have been
erased and the surface smoothed, as though the intention was to substitute an ..."
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