repolish
- a word derived from polish.
Example Sentences
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Training didn’t only happen at the start of production because, for several reasons, the actors needed to repolish their newly learned skills throughout filming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
Casting was geared to turn a prostitute into an angel, to repolish a yaking common scold, or curve hard lips into "the kindly weak smiles of a deserving claimant."
From Time Magazine Archive
For purposes of instrument construction, however, a thin coat of silver is seldom to be recommended, on account of its liability to tarnish and its rapid destruction when any attempt is made to repolish it.
From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard
In consequence, the possessor of such a telescope, if he wishes to keep it in order, must always be prepared to resilver and repolish it.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon
After thoroughly drying, repolish by friction, first with a few drops of oil on a soft clean rag; continue with a dry clean rag till the oil disappears.
From Intarsia and Marquetry by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)
