Translation for "smooth down" to spanish
Translation examples
verb
I wanted to smooth down the mess of Jack’s hair.
—Quería alisar el pelo enmarañado de Jack.
I prodded gently at the paper, smoothing down the inner envelope.
Di algunos toques suaves en el papel para alisar el sobre de dentro.
The nurse leaned over her and smoothed down the covers, tucking her in more firmly.
La enfermera se inclinó para alisar la sábana, remetiéndola en los bordes de la cama.
Not even Reg, fussing around smoothing down earth and patting turf into place, could detract from it.
Ni siquiera Reg, enfrascado en alisar la tierra del suelo y devolver terrones a su sitio con el pie, podía desmerecerlo.
I licked my palm and ran a hand across my shaggy head, hoping to smooth down any stick-up parts.
Me humedecí la palma con saliva y me pasé la mano por las revueltas guedejas con la esperanza de alisar lo que ya era una corona de espinas.
Atia sat up in the bed as Aurelia opened the door and made an effort to smooth down the rumpled bedclothes. ‘Aurelia. Publius!
Cuando Aurelia abrió la puerta del dormitorio, Atia se incorporó en la cama e intentó alisar las sábanas arrugadas con la mano. —¡Aurelia!
‘Beard bothering you?’ Blue Jenner strolled up yawning, smoothing down his few wild strands of hair and leaving them wilder than before. ‘Itchy.
—¿Te molesta la barba? —Jenner el Azul llegó bostezando, intentando alisar los revoltosos mechones de su pelo y dejándolos más revueltos que antes. —Me pica.
Gideon put his hand out, pulled me to my feet, and then rather clumsily tried smoothing down the hair at the back of my head. He’d got it into that untidy state himself.
Gideon me tendió la mano, me ayudó a ponerme en pie y luego se dedicó a alisar, no muy hábilmente, la maraña de cabellos enredados de mi nuca que él mismo se había encargado de revolver.
As often as not Commander Cherrystone was absent from the inner office. Liir could go in and smooth down the crinkled months-old newspapers in which the shipments of Gillikinese wine came wrapped.
Con suma frecuencia, el comandante se ausentaba del despacho, y entonces Liir podía entrar y alisar los arrugados periódicos de varios meses atrás que envolvían las remesas de vino gillikinés.
verb
It took some time to smooth down D'Aunay's rage.
Llevó algún tiempo calmar a D’Aunay en su cólera.
Because Hermia had been anxious to learn everything she could even when she was quite young, she smoothed down the elderly woman who had been insulted and coaxed her into continuing the lesson so that she could learn what she wanted to know.
Hermia siempre estuvo ansiosa por aprender todo cuando pudiera, y conseguía calmar a la maestra que había sido insultada y la convencía de proseguir con la lección.
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