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Word Meanings - UNPOLISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of polish; to make impolite.

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  • DEPRIVEMENT
    Deprivation.
  • POLISHMENT
    The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
  • POLISHED
    Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
  • IMPOLITE
    Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners; discourteous; uncivil; rude. -- Im`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Im`po*lite"ness, n.
  • POLISHABLE
    Capable of being polished.
  • POLISHEDNESS
    The quality of being polished.
  • DEPRIVER
    One who, or that which, deprives.
  • POLISH
    Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants. -- n.
  • 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
  • DEPRIVE
    1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath
  • 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.

 

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