| Main Entry: | press |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | push on with force |
| Synonyms: | bear down, bear heavily, bulldoze, clasp, compress, condense, constrain, crowd, crush, cumber, depress, embrace, enfold, express, finish, flatten, force down, hold, hug, impel, iron, jam, level, mangle, mash, mass, move, pack, pile, pin down, ram, reduce, scrunch, shove, smooth, squash, squeeze, squish, steam, stuff, thrust, unwrinkle, weigh |
| Antonyms: | pull |
| Main Entry: | smooth |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make level |
| Synonyms: | burnish, clear, even, flatten, flush, glaze, gloss, grade, iron, lay, level, make uniform, perfect, plane, polish, press, refine, round, sand, sleek, slick, varnish |
| Antonyms: | coarsen, roughen, wrinkle |