Word Meanings - UNPOLISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of polish; to make impolite.

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.