verb, smiled, smil⋅ing, noun | 1. | to assume a facial expression indicating pleasure, favor, or amusement, but sometimes derision or scorn, characterized by an upturning of the corners of the mouth. |
| 2. | to regard with favor: Luck smiled on us that night. |
| 3. | to have a pleasant or agreeable appearance or aspect, as natural scenes, objects, etc.: The landscape smiled in the sunlight. |
| 4. | to assume or give (a smile, esp. of a given kind): She smiled a warm and friendly smile. |
| 5. | to express by a smile: to smile approval. |
| 6. | to bring, put, drive, etc., by or as by smiling: to smile one's tears away. |
| 7. | the act or an instance of smiling; a smiling expression of the face. |
| 8. | favor or kindly regard: fortune's smile. |
| 9. | a pleasant or agreeable appearance, look, or aspect. |
| 10. | smile at,
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