"smooth over" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "smooths over",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "smoothing over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "smoothed over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "smoothed over",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "smooth over (third-person singular simple present smooths over, present participle smoothing over, simple past and past participle smoothed over)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"over\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make (a rough surface) smooth"
      ],
      "id": "en-smooth_over-en-verb-~aQSm7R5",
      "links": [
        [
          "smooth",
          "smooth"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To make (a rough surface) smooth"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"over\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Then, as usual, the sheep broke into \"Four legs good, two legs bad!\" and the momentary awkwardness was smoothed over.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1982 August 14, Ian Daniels, “Nazis In Chicago”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 5, page 5:",
          "text": "A revolution would allow people to be who they really are: controlling their own appearance, work sexuality; their own lives. A revolution means consciously confronting the bigotry that divides us—not smoothing it over and hoping it will go away.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pacify (e.g. rumours)"
      ],
      "id": "en-smooth_over-en-verb-DQuSpI5E",
      "links": [
        [
          "pacify",
          "pacify"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To pacify (e.g. rumours)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "smooth over"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"over\"",
    "English verbs",
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    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "smooths over",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "smoothing over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "smoothed over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "smoothed over",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make (a rough surface) smooth"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "smooth",
          "smooth"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To make (a rough surface) smooth"
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Then, as usual, the sheep broke into \"Four legs good, two legs bad!\" and the momentary awkwardness was smoothed over.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1982 August 14, Ian Daniels, “Nazis In Chicago”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 5, page 5:",
          "text": "A revolution would allow people to be who they really are: controlling their own appearance, work sexuality; their own lives. A revolution means consciously confronting the bigotry that divides us—not smoothing it over and hoping it will go away.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pacify (e.g. rumours)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pacify",
          "pacify"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To pacify (e.g. rumours)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "smooth over"
}