vverb.contactpolish and make shinySynset:buff burnish furbish
Examples:- buff the wooden floors
- buff my shoes
Derivationally Related Form:burnishbufferbuff
Hypernyms:polish shine smooth smoothen
Inherited Hypernyms:buffpolishfancifybetterchange
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Something ---s something | They --- the glass tubes (apply to: burnish, buff)
adj satadj.allmade smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glowSynset:bright lustrous shining shiny
Examples:- bright silver candlesticks
- a burnished brass knocker
- she brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves
- rows of shining glasses
- shiny black patents
Antonyms:unpolished
Derivationally Related Form:shineshininessbrightness
Inherited Hypernyms:bright
Similar to:polished