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Synonyms:
- refinement, anvil, grind, illumine, remedy, flush, sheen, illuminate, study at polish, lighten, buffet, plane, cultivation, boost, brighten, flatten, silken, colour, crucible, correct, shine, rubric, bar, buff, blacksmith, culture, sleek, color, lift, beat, chase, enhance, furbish, sand, slick, semblance, ct., polish, light, glaze, improve on, glossiness, luster, smooth, intensify, bullion, even, deposit, improve, luminance, finish, optimization, enrich, revitalize, level, glossary, gloss
Examples:
- - It will, I fear, be a great labour to you; but I cannot get it done here, and it may not be useless to you to burnish up your French a little. - "Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete", Matthew L. Davis
- - He wotteth well that Hillyer hath none who can burnish plate armour like Tibble here. - "The Armourer's Prentices", Charlotte Mary Yonge
- - The car drew up and she stepped into it- a tall, slim figure, wonderfully graceful in her unrelieved black, her hair gleaming as though with some sort of burnish, as she passed underneath the electric light. - "The Evil Shepherd", E. Phillips Oppenheim
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