polish
/ˈpɑ.lɪʃ/ verbo C2En español: pulir, acicalar, polir, pulimentar
- To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding. · He polished up the chrome until it gleamed.
- To refine; remove imperfections from. · The band has polished its performance since the last concert.
- To apply shoe polish to shoes.
- To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface. · Steel polishes well.
- To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite.
He/she/it polishes · Pasado polished · Participio pasado polished · Forma en -ing polishing
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- polish
- He/she/it
- polishes
- Pasado
- polished
- Participio pasado
- polished
- Forma en -ing
- polishing
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies.”
“Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world: every savage can dance.”
The men were dressed in blue, of the same shade as their hats, and wore well-polished boots with a deep roll of blue at the tops.
So they set to work in one of the big yellow rooms of the castle and worked for three days and four nights, hammering and twisting and bending and soldering and polishing and pounding at the legs and body and head of the Tin Woodman, until at last he was straightened out into his old form, and his joints worked as well as ever.
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