Usually means: Make smooth, polished, or glossy.
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  1. laevigate: Wordnik
  2. laevigate: Wiktionary
  3. Laevigate, laevigate: Dictionary.com
  4. Laevigate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. Laevigate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  6. laevigate: FreeDictionary.org
  7. Laevigate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Laevigate: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Laevigate)

▸ verb:  (hypercorrect) Nonstandard spelling of levigate. [(transitive) To make smooth or polish.]

Similar:
lævigate, nivelate, levelise, nivellate, liquate, laetificate, legitimise, lemmatise, titavate, levelize, more...

Opposite:
coarse, rough, uneven

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Similar:
lævigate, nivelate, levelise, nivellate, liquate, laetificate, legitimise, lemmatise, titavate, levelize, more...

Opposite:
coarse, rough, uneven



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