A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
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Ironically, the 1974 varnishing and warm wax relining had helped keep the surface paint in place when the violent ripping happened.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2022
Shipwrights and volunteers will be recorking about 4,000 linear feet of seams on deck, conducting mechanical systems maintenance, painting and varnishing.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2022
And we applaud university officials who aren’t varnishing their words.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 31, 2019
This particular relic was always one of the most relentlessly self-examining of those lumbering gods, and he spends as much time tarnishing his silver here as varnishing it.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2016
They went on with their work of sanding or varnishing the newly finished benches, but they didn’t talk.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
