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polishing

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

Example Sentences

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My house chores included polishing my dad’s shoes and his 1956 Oldsmobile Super 88.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Caligiuri now prefers devouring barbeque to polishing off opposing forwards.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

Zidane had his pick of top clubs when leaving Bordeaux in summer 1996, opting for Turin where Juventus were polishing a freshly-collected Champions League trophy.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

SpaceX, and the two big artificial-intelligence plays, Anthropic and OpenAI, are in various stages of polishing up their prospectuses and going public.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

Papa sits at the table with a rag, polishing all of our silver, which lies in neat piles around him.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

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