smoothed
SaySMOOTHD/smuːðd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of smooth.
The carpenter smoothed the rough edge of the plank before painting it.
Once the cream had been smoothed over the surface, it dried within minutes.
Note
A regular verb, so one spelling does double duty: simple past (she smoothed the cloth) and past participle after have or be (it had been smoothed). Nearly every meaning of smooth takes an object, including flattening, easing a path and calming a quarrel, so the passive comes naturally: the way was smoothed, tempers were smoothed. In the West Country it can also mean stroked, said of an animal's fur.
smoothed is a form of smooth
smooth, verb: To make a surface even and free of roughness or irregularities. Full entry
- Spelling
- smooth → smoothed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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