SMOOTHEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does smoothen mean? 

• SMOOTHEN (verb)
  The verb SMOOTHEN has 3 senses:

1. make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing

2. make (a surface) shine

3. become smooth

  Familiarity information: SMOOTHEN used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMOOTHEN (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they smoothen    ... he / she / it smoothens   
Past simple: smoothened   
Past participle: smoothened   
-ing form: smoothening   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

smooth; smoothen

Context example:

smooth the surface of the wood

Hypernyms (to "smoothen" is one way to...):

change surface (undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface)

"Smoothen" entails doing...:

rub (move over something with pressure)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "smoothen"):

strip (remove the thread (of screws))

launch (smoothen the surface of)

rake (level or smooth with a rake)

plane (make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane)

float (make the surface of level or smooth)

sand; sandpaper (rub with sandpaper)

sandblast (grind with a sandblast)

file (smooth with a file)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make (a surface) shine

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

polish; shine; smooth; smoothen

Context example:

polish my shoes

Hypernyms (to "smoothen" is one way to...):

beautify; embellish; fancify; prettify (make more beautiful)

"Smoothen" entails doing...:

rub (move over something with pressure)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "smoothen"):

Simonise; Simonize (polish with wax)

sleek; slick (make slick or smooth)

buff; burnish; furbish (polish and make shiny)

gloss (give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They smoothen the glass tubes

Sense 3

Meaning:

Become smooth

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "smoothen" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

Members of the Hh family bind to patched (ptc), thus releasing smoothened (smo) to transduce a signal.

(Hedgehog Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

In the absence of hedgehog, patched represses constitutive smoothened signaling through fused.

(Drosophila Patched Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Patched associates with smoothened protein to transduce hedgehog signal, leading to activation of wingless, decapentaplegic, and patched.

(Drosophila Patched Gene, NCI Thesaurus)