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How to pronounce polish in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms shine, smooth, smoothen
Type of embellish, fancify, prettify, beautify
Has types simonize, furbish, gloss, burnish, sleek, slick, buff, simonise
Derivation polisher, polishing


polish my shoes.
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Synonyms brush up, polish up, round, round off
Type of perfect, hone


polish your social manners.
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Synonyms cultivation, culture, finish, refinement
Type of perfection, ne plus ultra, flawlessness


they performed with great polish.
Type Words
Synonyms burnish, gloss, glossiness
Type of refulgency, refulgence, effulgence, radiancy, radiance, smoothness, shine
Has types glaze, french polish
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Synonyms down, fine-tune, refine
Type of amend, ameliorate, meliorate, better, improve
Has types train, civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, over-refine, overrefine, school
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Type of formulation, preparation
Has types shoe polish, blacking, simoniz
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Type of slavic language, slavonic, slavonic language, slavic
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Examples of polish

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She quickly impressed the Mondale aides with her warmth, polish and preparation.
From the time.com
The church is dark and mysterious, rich with a whiff of incense, wax and polish.
From the telegraph.co.uk
For this event, he wore pink nail polish and clutched a Louis Vuitton man purse.
From the online.wsj.com
A citrus vinaigrette, made of orange, garlic and olive oil, added a tart polish.
From the ocregister.com
Polish your expertise like a diamond so that everyone can see it the way you do.
From the badlanguage.net
Ewan McGregor, though he would have to get some boot polish and do an Al Jolson.
From the dailymail.co.uk
They're absolutely brilliant and so conscientious, they even polish the hubcaps.
From the cars.uk.msn.com
It also will remove a buildup of furniture polish that can accumulate over time.
From the dailyherald.com
Polish media reported that Rakowski died Friday after a long battle with cancer.
From the thenewstribune.com
More examples
  • Of or relating to Poland or its people or culture; "Polish sausage"
  • Make (a surface) shine; "shine the silver, please"; "polish my shoes"
  • The property of being smooth and shiny
  • A highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality; "they performed with great polish"; "I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose"; "almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art"--Joseph Conrad
  • Improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing"
  • A preparation used in polishing
  • The Polish is a European breed of chicken known for its crest of feathers. The English language name of these birds is a misnomer, as they do not originate in the country of Poland. Instead, the oldest accounts of crested chickens comes from the Netherlands. ...
  • (The Poles) The Polish people, or Poles (Polacy , singular Polak) are the inhabitants of Poland and Polish emigrants irrespective of their ancestry. Their religion is predominantly Roman Catholic. ...
  • A substance used to polish; Cleanliness; smoothness, shininess; Refinement; cleanliness in performance or presentation; To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding; To refine; remove imperfections from