smooth over

smooth over

vb

(tr) to ease or gloss over: to smooth over a situation.

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Thesaurus

Verb

1.

smooth over - treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly gloss over, skate over, skimp over, slur over do by, treat, handle - interact in a certain way; "Do right by her"; "Treat him with caution, please"; "Handle the press reporters gently"

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smooth

adjective

1. Having no irregularities, roughness, or indentations:

even, flat, flush, level, planar, plane, straight.

2. Free from severity or violence, as in movement:

balmy, delicate, faint, gentle, mild, soft.

3. Posing no difficulty:

easy, effortless, facile, simple.

Informal: snap.

Idioms: easy as ABC, easy as falling off a log, easy as one-two-three, easy as pie, like taking candy from a baby, nothing to it.

4. Effortlessly gracious and tactful in social manner:

bland, suave, urbane.

5. Marked by facility, especially of expression:

easy, effortless, flowing, fluent, fluid, graceful.

verb

1. To make even, smooth, or level:

even, flat, flatten, level, plane, straighten.

2. To bring to perfection or completion:

perfect, polish, refine.

Idiom: smooth off the rough edges.

phrasal verb
smooth over

To bring (something) into a state of agreement or accord:

reconcile, rectify, resolve, settle, straighten out.

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Translations

w>smooth over

vt sep (fig) quarrel → in Ordnung bringen, geradebiegen (inf); to smooth things over → die Sache geradebiegen (inf)

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