Word Meanings - DEPOLISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To remove the polish or glaze from.

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• 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.
• POLISHABLE
  Capable of being polished.
• REMOVER
  One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
• POLISHEDNESS
  The quality of being polished.
• REMOVED
  1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n.
• REMOVE
  1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered
• 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.
• 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
• GLAZEN
  Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed. Wyclif.
• GLAZER
  1. One who applies glazing, as in pottery manufacture, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like. 2. A tool or machine used in glazing, polishing, smoothing, etc.; amoung
• 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.
• EXPOLISH
  To polish thoroughly. Heywood.
• UNPOLISH
  To deprive of polish; to make impolite.
• OVERGLAZE
  Applied over the glaze; -- said of enamel paintings, which sometimes are seen to project from the surface of the ware. Suitable for applying upon the glaze; -- said of vitrifiable colors used in ceramic decoration.