polishing

Speech parts

1. polishing - Noun

2. polishing - Adjective

3. polishing - Verb

Meaning

of Polish

a. & n. from Polish.

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Examples

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream. Raymond Chandler

The artist who parades his drawing, the writer who calls attention to his style, is like the farmer who devotes his energies to polishing farm implements and never uses them. Auguste Rodin

Regarding my reputation among physicians, it really does not mean much. They know me through my textbooks, which are to me what lens polishing was to the great philosopher Spinoza. I have to do this as a secondary occupation, necessary to sustenance. Baruch Spinoza

The business of polishing my shoes satisfies my soul. William Saroyan

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. Dean Koontz

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