Word Meanings - LEVIGATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Made less harsh or burdensome; alleviated. Sir. T. Elyot.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LEVIGATE)

• Lubricate
• Oil
• ease
• grease
• levigate
• gloze
• glaze
• Polish
• Burnish
• furbish
• brighten
• refine
• make glossy

Related words: (words related to LEVIGATE)

• BURNISHER
  1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• BURNISH
  To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing
• REFINED
  Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments. Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens. Peacham. -- Re*fin"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*fin"ed*ness, n.
• GLOZER
  A flatterer. Gifford .
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• POLISHABLE
  Capable of being polished.
• GREASE COCK; GREASE CUP
  A cock or cup containing grease, to serve as a lubricator.
• REFINEMENT
  1. The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. Norris. From the civil war to this time, I doubt
• REFINER
  One who, or that which, refines.
• POLISHEDNESS
  The quality of being polished.
• GLOSSY
  1. Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; lustrous; as, glossy silk; a glossy surface. 2. Smooth; specious; plausible; as, glossy deceit.
• FURBISH
  To rub or scour to brightness; to clean; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear. Shak. Furbish new the name of John a Gaunt. Shak.
• GREASE
  An inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences. Grease bush. Same as Grease wood . -- Grease moth
• LUBRICATE
  1. To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied. S. Sharp. Supples, lubricates, and keeps in play, The various movements of this nice machine. Young. 2. To apply a lubricant
• REFINE
  1. To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar. I will bring
• FURBISHABLE
  Capable of being furbished.
• POLISH
  Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants. -- n.
• GLAZE
  To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to , to modify the effect. (more info) 1. To furnish with glass. Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass. Bacon. 2. To incrust, cover, or overlay with
• POLISHER
  One who, or that which, polishes; also, that which is used in polishing. Addison.
• AMBERGREASE
  See AMBERGRIS
• PREFINE
  To limit beforehand. Knolles.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• DEPOLISHING
  The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.
• DEGLAZE
  To remove the glaze from, as pottery or porcelain, so as to give a dull finish.
• DEPOLISH
  To remove the polish or glaze from.
• OVERPOLISH
  To polish too much.