mess up vs smooth

mess up

verb
  • To manhandle; beat up; rough up. 

  • To damage; injure. 

  • To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss. 

  • To botch, bungle; to perform poorly on. 

  • To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin. 

  • To cause (another person) to make unwanted mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious behavior. 

  • To make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly. 

  • To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray. 

smooth

verb
  • To calm or palliate. 

  • To make smooth or even. 

  • To make straightforward or easy. 

  • To stroke; especially to stroke an animal's fur. 

  • To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure; to press, to flatten. 

  • To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise. 

adv
  • Smoothly. 

adj
  • Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the function’s domain. 

  • Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; fluent. 

  • Natural; unconstrained. 

  • Not grainy; having an even texture. 

  • Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents. 

  • Involuntary and non-striated. 

  • That factors completely into small prime numbers. 

  • Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough. 

  • Unbroken. 

  • Lacking marked aspiration. 

  • Lacking projections or indentations; not serrated. 

  • Placid, calm. 

  • Having a pleasantly rounded flavor; neither rough nor astringent. 

  • Suave; sophisticated. 

  • Bland; glib. 

noun
  • The analysis obtained through a smoothing procedure. 

  • Something that is smooth, or that goes smoothly and easily. 

  • A domestic animal having a smooth coat. 

  • A member of an anti-hippie fashion movement in 1970s Britain. 

  • A smoothing action. 

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