polishing

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abrasive adj.
cultural adj.
refining adj.

ADJECTIVE

abrasive

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abrading coarse

STRONG

grinding gritty rough scratching

WEAK

erosive scuffing sharpening smoothing

Antonyms

STRONGEST

fine fine-grained

ADJECTIVE

cultural

Synonyms

STRONGEST

artistic developmental

WEAK

adorning advancing beautifying beneficial broadening civilizing constructive corrective dignifying disciplining edifying educative elevating ennobling enriching expanding glorifying helpful humane humanizing influential inspirational instructive learned liberal liberalizing nurturing ornamenting promoting raising refined refining regenerative socializing stimulating uplifting widening

ADJECTIVE

refining

Synonyms

STRONG

civilizing clarifying cleaning cultivating distillation elevating focusing honing improving perfecting purifying sharpening

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Technicians in robes and hairnets sit at workbenches, polishing, cementing and hand-painting lenses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Short’s polishing of even so-so lines into comedy gold earned him nominations for every season of “Only Murders” so far.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Writing something is a bit like polishing rocks.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

This comes at a time when Beijing is polishing its image abroad as it cements its role as a global power.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

There’s a great deal of polishing being done.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

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