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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | varnish, lacquer |
| Synonyms: | buff, burnish, coat, cover, enamel, furbish, glance, glass, gloss, incrust, make lustrous, make vitreous, overlay, polish, rub, shine, vitrify |
| Antonyms: | strip |
| Main Entry: | buff |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | polish to a shine |
| Synonyms: | brush, burnish, furbish, glaze, gloss, pumice, rub, sandpaper, scour, shine, smooth |
| Main Entry: | burnish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | polish, brighten |
| Synonyms: | buff, furbish, glance, glaze, gloss, luster, patina, put on a finish, rub, sheen, shine, smooth, wax |
| Antonyms: | dull, tarnish |
| Main Entry: | coat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cover with layer of material |
| Synonyms: | apply, cover, crust, enamel, foil, glaze, incrust, laminate, paint, plaster, plate, smear, spread, stain, surface, varnish |
| Notes: | skin is the general term for an animal's outer covering; the layer of fur, hair, or wool is the coat; hide is the tough skin of certain large animals that is tanned and made into leather; pelt is untanned skin of fur-bearing animals |
| Antonyms: | reveal, uncover |
| Main Entry: | color |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make pigmented; shade |
| Synonyms: | adorn, blacken, bloom, blush, burn, chalk, crayon, crimson, darken, daub, dye, embellish, emblazon, enamel, enliven, flush, fresco, gild, glaze, gloss, illuminate, imbue, infuse, lacquer, paint, pigment, pinken, redden, rouge, stain, stipple, suffuse, tinge, tint, tone, variegate, wash |
| Notes: | color refers to the wavelength composition of light, shade is a gradation of color referring to its degree of darkness, tint is a gradation referring to its degree of lightness, and hue indicates a modification of a basic color |
| Antonyms: | discolor, pale, whiten |
| Main Entry: | display |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | show for public viewing, effect |
| Synonyms: | advertise, arrange, bare, betray, boast, brandish, bring to view, demonstrate, disclose, emblazon, evidence, evince, exhibit, expand, expose, extend, feature, flash, flaunt, flourish, glaze, grandstand, illustrate, impart, lay bare, lay out, make clear, make known, manifest, model, open, open out, parade, perform, present, promote, promulgate, publish, represent, reveal, set out, show off, showcase, sport, spread out, stretch out, trot out, uncover, unfold, unfurl, unmask, unroll, unveil, vamp |
| Antonyms: | conceal, cover, hide, secrete, withhold |
| Main Entry: | furbish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | polish; renovate |
| Synonyms: | brighten, buff, burnish, clean, deck out, fix up, glaze, gloss, gussy up, improve, recondition, refurbish, rehabilitate, renew, restore, rub, shine, smarten up, spruce up |
| Main Entry: | glare |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shine very brightly |
| Synonyms: | beam, blare, blaze, blind, blur, daze, dazzle, flame, flare, glaze, glow, radiate |
| Main Entry: | gloss |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make shiny |
| Synonyms: | buff, burnish, finish, furbish, glance, glaze, lacquer, polish, rub, shine, varnish, veneer |
| Antonyms: | dull |
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