Word Meanings - OVERPOLISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To polish too much.
Related words: (words related to OVERPOLISH)
- 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. - 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.