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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Polish \Pol"ish\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Polished}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Polishing}.] [F. polir, L. polire. Cf. {Polite}, {-ish}]
1. To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass, marble, metals, etc.
2. Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish life or manners. --Milton.
{To polish off}, to finish completely, as an adversary. [Slang] --W. H. Russell.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Polished \Pol"ished\, adjective Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
polished
adjective
1: perfected or made shiny and smooth; "his polished prose"; "in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes"; "freshly polished silver" [ant: {unpolished}]
2: showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters" [syn: {refined}, {svelte}, {urbane}]
3: (of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed; "polished rice" [syn: {milled}]
4: (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth [syn: {dressed}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
127 Moby Thesaurus words for "polished": Attic, Ciceronian, accomplished, adept, advanced, ameliorated, archetypical, beautified, bettered, buffed, burnished, chaste, civilized, classic, clear, complete, consummate, converted, courtly, cultivated, cultured, dainty, debonair, delicate, developed, direct, discriminating, distingue, easy, educated, elegant, embellished, enhanced, enriched, excellent, exemplary, exhaustive, expert, fastidious, faultless, fine, finished, flawless, fully developed, fully realized, furbished, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, gifted, glace, glassy, glazed, gleaming, glistening, glossy, graceful, gracile, gracious, highbred, impeccable, improved, lacquered, ladylike, limpid, lucid, lustrous, masterful, masterly, mature, matured, model, natural, neat, nice, outstanding, pellucid, perfect, perfected, perspicuous, plain, polite, proficient, pure, quintessential, refined, reformed, restrained, ripe, ripened, round, rubbed, satiny, sheeny, shellacked, shined, shining, shiny, silken, silky, simple, sleek, slick, smarmy, soignee, sophisticated, straightforward, subtle, superb, superior, superlative, tasteful, terse, thorough, transfigured, transformed, trim, unaffected, unlabored, urbane, varnished, velvety, virtuoso, well-bred, well-brought-up, well-mannered
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