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smiling
 
Adjective smiling has 1 sense
  1. beamish, smiling, twinkly - smiling with happiness or optimism; "Come to my arms, my beamish boy!"- Lewis Carroll; "a room of smiling faces"; "a round red twinkly Santa Claus"
    Antonyms: cheerless, uncheerful (indirect, via cheerful)
Noun smiling has 1 sense
  1. smile, smiling, grin, grinning - a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement
    --1 is a kind of facial expression, facial gesture
    --1 has particulars: smirk
    Derived form: verb smile1
Verb smile has 2 senses
  1. smile - change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure
    --1 is one way to     grimace, make a face, pull a face
    Derived forms: noun smile1, noun smiler2, noun smiler1, noun smiling1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s PP
  2. smile - express with a smile; "She smiled her thanks"
    --2 is one way to     express, show, evince
    Derived forms: noun smile1, noun smiler1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s something to somebody
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