burnish🔊

To make (something, such as a surface) bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; to polish, to shine.

Of a stag: to remove the velvet (“skin and fine fur”) from (its antlers) by rubbing them against something; to velvet.

(figuratively) To make (someone or something) appear positive and highly respected.

To become bright, glossy, and smooth; to brighten, to gleam, to shine forth.

A shine of something which has been polished; a lustre, a polish.

A shiny layer applied to a surface or other thing.

The making of something bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; an instance of this; a burnishing, a polishing, a shining.

Of a person's body: to grow large or stout; to fatten, to fill out.

(by extension) Of a thing: to increase in size; to expand, to spread out, to swell.