burnish

verb · nounB1

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

burnishes

V_ing/Gerund

burnishing

V_ed/pp

burnishedno-table-tags

1.
(transitive)To make (something, such as a surface) bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; to polish, to shine.
In pottery, a stone is sometimes used to burnish a pot before firing, giving it a smooth, shiny look.
Đồng nghĩa: buff, furbish, rub
2.
(transitive)Of a stag: to remove the velvet (“skin and fine fur”) from (its antlers) by rubbing them against something; to velvet.
3.
(figuratively, transitive)To make (someone or something) appear positive and highly respected.
4.
(intransitive)To become bright, glossy, and smooth; to brighten, to gleam, to shine forth.
5.
Of a person's body: to grow large or stout; to fatten, to fill out.
6.
(broadly)(by extension) Of a thing: to increase in size; to expand, to spread out, to swell.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

burnishes

1.
(countable, uncountable)A shine of something which has been polished; a lustre, a polish.
2.
(countable, uncountable)A shiny layer applied to a surface or other thing.
3.
(uncountable)The making of something bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; (countable) an instance of this; a burnishing, a polishing, a shining.
With a good burnish, the old table should fetch a higher price.

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Đồng nghĩa

bufffurbishrub polish shine wax

Cùng gốc / liên quan

burnishedburnisherburnishingburnishmentreburnish

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro The verb is derived from Middle English burnishen, burnysshen, from burniss-, a stem of Old French burnir (compare, for example, the first-person present singular indicative form burnis), a variant of brunir (to make clean and shiny, polish; to make brown) (modern brunir), from *brūnijan (to polish, make resplendent), from Proto-Germanic *brūnijaną (to decorate;