Definition for Polishing:

• a. & n. from Polish.

Synonyms for Polishing:

• adj.

  •abrasive (adjective)
  • erosive.
  •cultural (adjective)
  • helpful,
  • inspirational,
  • Liberalizing,
  • Regenerative,
  • expanding,
  • developmental,
  • Disciplining.
  •refining (adjective)
  • most cleaning,
  • most focusing,
  • most distillation,
  • most purifying,
  • most honing,
  • re-fining,
  • more honing,
  • more distillation,
  • more purifying,
  • more clarifying,
  • most perfecting,
  • most clarifying,
  • more cleaning,
  • more perfecting,
  • re fining,
  • more cultivating,
  • most cultivating,
  • more focusing.

• n.

  •act (noun)
  • shining,
  • polishing.

• v.

  •smoothing (verb)
  • Flattening,
  • Glossing,
  • Planing,
  • Burnishing,
  • Glazing,
  • grinding,
  • Sanding,
  • leveling,
  • Smoothing,
  • evening,
  • Slicking.

• Other synonyms:

  •revisal
  • revision.

Paraphrases for Polishing:

• Equivalence

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Buffing.

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    improvements, improvement, improving, ameliorating, Sharpening, Enhancing, upgrading, grinding, refine, refining.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    polish, varnish, grind.

Polishing Sentence Examples:

• Later, when his true qualifications were discovered, he had to save the Empire by polishing the buttons and serving the morning tea and buying the cigarettes of a major who in 1914 had been a lawyer by profession and a soldier only for fun.

• Fortunately, the manuscript needed little more than polishing.

Hypernym for Polishing:

• n.

  • act
    shoeshine.

Hyponym for Polishing:

• n.

  • act
    work.