polish
verb (used with object)
to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction.
repolish
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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
In 1814, however, he undertook to repolish the forty-foot mirror, but was obliged to give it over.
From Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works by Edward Singleton Holden
Let us season our reading, polish it, grain it, varnish it, repolish it and revarnish it, until we are just like it ourselves—clear, concise, intelligent.
From The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by John McGovern
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 Richard Threlfall
