Meaning & use
smiled
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Formed a facial expression by curving the corners of the mouth upward, typically to show pleasure, friendliness, or amusement.
See it in a sentence
She smiled warmly as she greeted her old friend.
He smiled at the joke, even though he'd heard it before.
A note on using this word
The idiom 'fortune smiled on' someone means that luck favored them, extending the word figuratively beyond facial expression.
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Words with an opposite meaning
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