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  • verb Present participle of smoothen.

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Examples

  • Liquid-plus income schemes allowed investors to benefit from the existing Sebi rule which allowed "smoothening" of NAVs for holding bonds with terminal (or remaining) maturity of less than 182 days.

    The Financial Express 2010

  • Impressingly, the agressive songs seem to fit the band better than their efforts in 'smoothening' their sound.

    Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website 2009

  • India is working to tighten its regulatory mechanism by enacting new laws such as the mining bill in an attempt to attract investments by simplifying rules and smoothening land acquisitions through higher compensation to displaced people.

    India Minister: Captive Miners Should Pay for Welfare of Displaced Saurabh Chaturvedi 2011

  • NEW DELHI – The Indian cabinet Friday approved the draft of a law that seeks to attract investments in mining by simplifying rules and smoothening land acquisitions through higher compensation to people displaced, but industry executives said some of the proposals were negative.

    India Cabinet Approves New Mining Bill Mukesh Jagota 2011

  • Then that embryo could be extracted and used for research (or smoothening asses) without objection?

    xaxanprilokevlixec, 800 mg b.i.d. (orally) 2005

  • Like after rather lousy smoothening down, it looks like a square cause the back is so super short (due to layering) that it refuses to stay down.

    yanxious Diary Entry yanxious 2005

  • His visit appeared aimed at smoothening the strained relations, but analysts said it was hard to tell if the lost confidence will be regained.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • "They should instead play a smoothening role in maintaining harmony where misunderstanding is eminent and promote peace where conflict is evident by ensuring that Zambia does not fall into the seemingly preferred category of a conflict and post-conflict country that some donors appear more enthusiastic to support," Kalumba said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • The smoothening effect of noise reduction starts to be visible at ISO 400, resulting in a slight loss of detail, but the image is very usable up to ISO 800.

    Digital Camera Reviews & Photography Tips 2010

  • Inspire Salon is the only hair studio in albuquerque which has paperwork from Brazilian Blowout to use their full assortment of products including their famous hair-straightening and smoothening style known as - what else - the Brazilian Blowout.

    ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds 2010

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