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smooth down
verb
To render smooth, to remove roughness from
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Better to be cool — and smooth down those rough edges.
The course of being a fan has not run smooth down at Plymouth Argyle over the past few months.
They jerk their heads to the side, smooth down their hair, slump forward, sit up alertly, pull their tops on and off their shoulders.
"Eleven things that float," she said, raising a hand to her forehead to smooth down the bangs of her windblown pageboy.
The Skate Crew is a group of Harlem teenagers who help smooth down the ice and run the sound system, which consists of their own recordplayer and records.
A dev editor is supposed to smooth down the rough edges.
In her letter, Casiraghi showed that DLC films, which were known to be very smooth, remain smooth down to one or two atomic layers.
These both work in a similar manner: They lift the can top off at the lip, and smooth down the jagged side edge.
Warm a tiny bit between your palms and smooth down flyaways and frizz without stiffness.
You just quietly take a seat and smooth down your hair.
The first step was to slightly smooth down the prosthesis' skin to open up the pores.
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