smooth something away

Then she looked at his eyes and her panic smoothed away.

She smiled at him and the worry lines were smoothed away.

Up to this time money had smoothed away every obstacle.

When I speak to the people, all these details of my appearance will be smoothed away.

It was that last she had to smooth away.

The practical difficulties, I soon discovered, were relatively easy to smooth away.

The cold, arrogant young woman flashed across her face, then smoothed away.

Listen before you give that ready answer which it is so hard to recall, or smooth away.

A shadow appeared at the corner of his lips, smoothed away.

The version of the play they saw most likely had any political rough edges smoothed away.