smooth sth over
— phrasal verb with smooth uk/smuːð/us/smuːð/verb
to make problems, difficulties, or disagreements less serious or easier to solve, usually by talking to the people involved:
Would you like me to try to smooth things over between you and your parents?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making things better
- a shot in the arm idiom
- add salt to sth idiom
- allay
- alleviate
- ameliorate
- heal
- make sb/sth over
- mitigate
- mollify
- more
- palliate
- redeem
- relieve
- salve
- spice sth up
- sting
- straighten
- straighten sb out
- streamline
- sugar-coated
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