Word Meanings - EXPOLISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To polish thoroughly. Heywood.

Related words: (words related to EXPOLISH)

• 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.
• POLISHEDNESS
  The quality of being polished.
• THOROUGHLY
  In a thorough manner; fully; entirely; completely.
• 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
• 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.