"sand off" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sands off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sanding off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sanded off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sanded off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "sand off (third-person singular simple present sands off, present participle sanding off, simple past and past participle sanded off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To make smooth or blunt by sandpapering"
      ],
      "id": "en-sand_off-en-verb-o1C5QRoQ",
      "links": [
        [
          "blunt",
          "blunt"
        ],
        [
          "sandpaper",
          "sandpaper"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "12 88",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 77",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 October 18, Murtada Elfadl, “Killers Of The Flower Moon review: Martin Scorsese's uniquely American tragedy”, in AV Club",
          "text": "De Niro veers dangerously close to caricature—making chirpy noises, always tilting his head, adding dashes of comedy—yet he ends up personifying evil while never sanding off the edges of this horrible man or trying to explain away his misdeeds with a humanist approach.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To remove the rough elements or imperfections from"
      ],
      "id": "en-sand_off-en-verb-McN43BSu",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) To remove the rough elements or imperfections from"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sand off"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sands off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sanding off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sanded off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sanded off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "sand off (third-person singular simple present sands off, present participle sanding off, simple past and past participle sanded off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To make smooth or blunt by sandpapering"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "blunt",
          "blunt"
        ],
        [
          "sandpaper",
          "sandpaper"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 October 18, Murtada Elfadl, “Killers Of The Flower Moon review: Martin Scorsese's uniquely American tragedy”, in AV Club",
          "text": "De Niro veers dangerously close to caricature—making chirpy noises, always tilting his head, adding dashes of comedy—yet he ends up personifying evil while never sanding off the edges of this horrible man or trying to explain away his misdeeds with a humanist approach.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To remove the rough elements or imperfections from"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) To remove the rough elements or imperfections from"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sand off"
}