SANDED Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

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as in scraped

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verb

past tense of sand

as in rubbed

to make smooth by friction painstakingly sanded down the wooden floors of the old house

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Recent Examples of sanded

Adjective

Fill the crack in the door with the epoxy wood filler, spreading a small bit of the paste over the sanded area to help close and bond the edges of the crack together. —

Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 11 Jan. 2026

Verb

Attention spans are being sanded down, vocabulary is becoming consumer-friendly. —

Hannah Gold, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026 Then the wood must dry, then be sanded, stained and carved. —

Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 15 Mar. 2026 The hard edges and rough parts were getting sanded down, and the arguments and ideas were more uniform. —

Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2026 The short’s dreamy black-and-white sequences, as well as its absence of character dialogue, sanded down AI’s rough edges. —

Jake Kanter, Deadline, 18 Feb. 2026 By ignoring class as a factor in its characters’ lives, Bridgerton has often sanded away much of the underlying friction between them — and done the couples’ love stories a disservice in the process. —

Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2026 Earlier in the season, there was a minor controversy over whether the film’s changes to the source material — making its hero less explicitly racist and less complicit in the victimization of a Chinese laborer — sanded down the tale’s rough edges. —

Nate Jones, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2026 Wood floors are durable in that they can be sanded and refinished. —

Mary Grace Granados special Contributor, Dallas Morning News, 5 Jan. 2026 Martin will doubtless have his edges sanded down over time, though hopefully later rather than sooner. —

Alison Herman, Variety, 4 Jan. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanded

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And Jesse Leasure, who was drenched in pepper spray and felt like his skin was on fire and as though someone had rubbed his eyeballs with sandpaper.

— Olivia George, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2026
The smaller tires also eliminated gear hunting while going up a grade on the highway (which used to drive me nuts), and the tires no longer rubbed when the steering wheel was at full lock.

— Bryan Rogala, Outside, 19 Mar. 2026