levigate
/ˈlɛvɪɡeɪt
/verb [with object] archaic
Reduce (a substance) to a fine powder or smooth paste: this clay, carefully levigated, yielded a red ware...
- Eighteen cars broke the qualifying record at Lowe's Motor Speedway after the track was levigated, but the grinding of the surface led to problems involving holes in the pavement.
Derivatives
levigation
/ nounOrigin
Mid 16th century: from Latin levigat- 'made smooth, polished', from the verb levigare, from levis 'smooth'.
- seepage
- seer
- see red
- seersucker
- see-saw
- see sense (or reason)
- see service
- see someone coming
- see someone damned first
- see someone off
- see someone out
- see someone right
- see someone/thing out of (or from) the corner of one's eye
- see someone through
- see something coming
- see something of
- see something out
- see something through
- see stars
- seethe
- see the back of
- see the colour of someone's money
- see the error of one's ways
- see the funny side (of something)
- see the light