Meaning & use
Smoothen
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To make something smooth, or to become smooth.
See it in a sentence
Sand the surface lightly to smoothen it before painting.
The new policy is meant to smoothen the transition for incoming employees.
A note on using this word
While some style guides prefer plain 'smooth' as a verb, 'smoothen' appears in dictionaries and is especially common in Indian and South Asian English.
Words with a similar meaning
smootheven out
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Words with an opposite meaning
roughen
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