Crossword-Solution: BURNISH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Burnish | a. | To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. |
| Burnish | v. i. | To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large. |
| Burnish | n. | The effect of burnishing; gloss; brightness; luster. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “BURNISH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Smooth by rubbing | 1 answer |
| Shine, as leather | 1 answer |
| Polish by rubbing | 1 answer |
| Make bright by rubbing | 1 answer |
| make smooth and shiny by rubbing | 2 answers |
| Put a shine on | 2 answers |
| make shine | 3 answers |
| polish up | 6 answers |
| MAKE lustrous | 9 answers |
| furbish | 11 answers |
| Scour | 27 answers |
| Brighten | 31 answers |
| irradiate | 38 answers |
| -- glance | 41 answers |
| Rub | 41 answers |
| Buff | 42 answers |
| make glossy | 45 answers |
| Glaze | 56 answers |
| Gloss | 62 answers |
| Refine | 64 answers |
| Polish | 75 answers |
| Poise | 82 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BURNISH (5)
The plates being secured to the inner side of the wheel or case, and as this case revolved, the seeds would constantly keep to the lower level, and their sliding over the surface of the plates would polish or burnish their surfaces.
Bruin, Beaver, Burnish, Brunette.] Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
Unheeded all the grove's deep gloom had been, Unseen the moonlight brightness of the green; In vain the stream's blue burnish met her eye, Lovely its wave, but pass'd unnoticed by: The airs of heaven had breath'd around her brow Their cooling sighs--she felt them not--but now That lonely bower appeared, and with a start Convulsive shudders thrill'd her throbbing heart.
Knowing well that I have never had one hour of inspiration since it was begun, and have only beaten out my metal by brute force and patient repetition, I hoped some day to get a ‘spate of style’ and burnish it—fine mixed metaphor.
Furthermore, along either side of the belly ran two broad longitudinal stripes of exactly the color and burnish of the copper paint used on racing yachts.
Quotes with BURNISH (3)
You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy feelings that they can't express, and it hurts me. So I go home and burnish it and polish it and weld it to a rhythmic frame, make the dull colors gleam, mute the garish artificiality to pastels, so it doesn't hurt any more: that's my poem. I know what they want to say, and I say it for them.
As once-colonized nations seek to stand on their own, the countries once denuded of their past seek to assert their independent identities through the objects that tie them to it. The demand for restitution is a way to reclaim history, to assert a moral imperative over those who were once overlords. Those countries still in the shadow of more powerful empires seek to claim the symbols of antiquity and colonialism to burnish their own national mythmaking.
Oh God. We’re talking about me being naked, in the shower with cooter cream. Please world, end. Kill me. “I know it’s not soap. I just… if it’s scented… I can’t do scented. Flowers and stuff like that. Fruit-flavored soaps make… things… burnish.” She could tell from the peeks at his face Mr. Fitzwell had never stepped foot in bath and lotion store, wanting to try the array of fun fragrances. Nor had he purchased Peppermint Candy shower gel, foamed up his nether regions, and f…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1977–2012).