Synonyms of sands

sands 1 of 2

noun

plural of sand

as in beach

the usually sandy or gravelly land bordering a body of water

we went for a moonlight walk on the sands

Synonyms & Similar Words

• beach
• shoreline
• coast
• shore
• strand
• seaside
• waterfront
• beachfront
• riverside
• coastline
• seashore
• seaboard
• seacoast
• oceanfront
• riverbank
• coastland
• bank
• littoral
• esplanade
• shorefront
• riverfront
• plage
• lido

sands

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of sand

as in rubs

to make smooth by friction

painstakingly sanded down the wooden floors of the old house

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rubs
• files
• polishes
• grinds
• sharpens
• scrapes
• buffs
• planes
• hones
• rasps
• smoothes
• edges
• smooths
• scours
• sandblasts
• burnishes
• shines
• glosses
• dresses
• whets
• regrinds
• strops

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• coarsens
• roughens
• scuffs
• roughs (up)