Word Meanings - REPOLISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To polish again.
Related words: (words related to REPOLISH)
- AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - POLISHMENT
The act of polishing, or the state of being polished. - AGAINSAY
To gainsay. Wyclif. - POLISHED
Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse. - AGAIN
again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again, - POLISHABLE
Capable of being polished. - AGAINST
1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in - AGAIN; AGAINS
Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer. - POLISHEDNESS
The quality of being polished. - POLISH
Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants. -- n. - AGAINWARD
Back again. - POLISHER
One who, or that which, polishes; also, that which is used in polishing. Addison. - POLISHING
a. & n. from Polish. Polishing iron, an iron burnisher; esp., a small smoothing iron used in laundries. -- Polishing slate. A gray or yellow slate, found in Bohemia and Auvergne, and used for polishing glass, marble, and metals. A kind of hone - AGAINBUY
To redeem. Wyclif. - THEREAGAIN
In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer. - 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. - DEPOLISH
To remove the polish or glaze from. - OVERPOLISH
To polish too much. - EXPOLISH
To polish thoroughly. Heywood. - UNPOLISH
To deprive of polish; to make impolite.