smooth out

phrasal verb

smoothed out; smoothing out; smooths out also smoothes out

1

: to make (something) smooth or flat

Help me smooth out the tablecloth.

After we dug up the soil, we smoothed it out before we planted the seeds.

2

: to make (something) easier by removing or dealing with problems

We will smooth out the election process by next year.

She tried to smooth things out with her daughter-in-law, but the damage was done.

Examples of smooth out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In the trades, this often shows up as a feast-or-famine cycle—busy during peak seasons, desperate for work in the off-season, and unable to smooth out revenue streams with a consistent customer pipeline. —Brynn Cooksey, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025

The old fashioned has a touch of tang from pomegranate, smoothed out by cherry bark vanilla bitters. —Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025

Next, tuck the neighboring sides in as tightly as possible, and smooth out any wrinkles that are present. —Tessa Cooper, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Aug. 2025

However, with Web3’s ups and downs, Web3 companies need to be even smarter to ensure short term survival to glide over the alt season dips, but more importantly to have a strong growth strategy so that those dips smooth out as the user base grows. —Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Aug. 2025

Rhymes for smooth out

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• blowout
• breakout
• burnout
• buyout
• checkout
• closeout
• cutout
• devout
• dropout