| Main Entry: | housework |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cleaning, maintaining a home |
Synonyms: |
administration, bed-making, cooking, domestic art, domestic science, dusting, home economics, homemaking, housecraft, housekeeping, ironing, laundering, management, mopping, sewing, stewardship, sweeping, washing |
| Main Entry: | lay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make smooth |
Synonyms: |
allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, calm, even, flatten, flush, iron, level, plane, press, quiet, relieve, steam, still, suppress |
| Notes: | to lay is to place something; to lie is to recline |
Antonyms: |
rough |
| 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 |