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The jeweler carefully burnished the silver bracelet until it gleamed.burnished = polished
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The candidate worked hard to burnish her public image before the election.burnish = improve reputation
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The knight’s armor was so well burnished that it shone brightly in the sunlight.burnished = polished
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Standing beside its burnished bronze doors, (source)burnished = polished and shiny
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My brother's face was swollen and burnished as a new penny. (source)burnished = shiny
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the old man leaned over the stern and lifted the burnished gold fish with its purple spots over the stem. (source)burnished = shiny and smooth looking
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A big round moon, slowly deepening from her pallid luster into burnished silver, hung over the Haunted Wood; the air was full of sweet summer sounds—sleepy birds twittering, freakish breezes, faraway voices and laughter. (source)burnished = shiny and smooth looking
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His broad clear brow in sunlight glow'd; On burnish'd hooves his war-horse trode; From underneath his helmet flow'd His coal-black curls as on he rode, As he rode down to Camelot.† (source)burnish'd = polished and made shiny; or improved something
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I sensed her weakness and spent most of class Coming up with creative ways to burnish my status as class clown.† (source)burnish = polish and make shiny; or to improve something
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I stood at the window to admire the sunlight slanting over the golf course, and burnishing the bare trees on the distant hills.† (source)burnishing = polishing and making shiny; or improving something
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Then the clansman keen, of conquest proud, passing the seat,{36a}saw store of jewels and glistening gold the ground along; by the wall were marvels, and many a vessel in the den of the dragon, the dawn-flier old: unburnished bowls of bygone men reft of richness; rusty helms of the olden age; and arm-rings many wondrously woven.† (source)unburnished = not polished and made shiny; or not improvedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unburnished means not and reverses the meaning of burnished. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Frozen rime lusters the grass; the sun, round as an orange and orange as hot-weather moons, balances on the horizon, burnishes the silvered winter woods.† (source)burnishes = polishes and makes shiny; or improves something
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The burnished disks glimmered in the setting sun as it sifted through the cupola.† (source)burnished = polished and made shiny; or improved something
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With the pallid first, And next the burnish'd, he so ply'd the gate, As to content me well.† (source)
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It's a glorious evening, warm but not too close, the sun starting its lazy descent, shadows lengthening and the light just beginning to burnish the trees with gold.† (source)burnish = polish and make shiny; or to improve something
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For one, the white guys are more physical and affectionate toward one another than he's used to seeing among the black kids from high school, who were so wrapped up with burnishing their hard exteriors.† (source)burnishing = polishing and making shiny; or improving something
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