1. Make (a surface) shiny
   "polish my shoes";
   - smooth, smoothen, shine
    
2. Bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state
   "polish your social manners";
   - round, round off, polish up, brush up
    
3. Improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
   "polish one's style of writing"; "They downed the rough draft into a polished manuscript";
   - refine, fine-tune, down [informal]

1. A preparation used in polishing
   "She applied a layer of polish to make the wood furniture shine"
    
2. The property of being smooth and shiny
   "The polish of the magazine cover caught the eye";
   - gloss, glossiness, burnish
    
3. A highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
   "they performed with great polish";
   - refinement, finish, finesse

1. The Slavic language of Poland
   - Polish language

1. Of or relating to Poland or its people or culture
   "Polish sausage"

Derived forms: polishes, polished, polishing

Type of: ameliorate, amend, beautify, better, effulgence, fancify, flawlessness, formulation, hone, improve, meliorate, mend, ne plus ultra, perfect, perfection, preparation, prettify, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine, Slavic, Slavic language, Slavonic, Slavonic language, smoothness

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