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burnish

verb as in polish, brighten

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Sandoval has also managed to burnish his image with a patina of integrity in the scandal-scarred Silver State.

This means that even women who are not employed in factories will get the chance to burnish career-building skills.

At this point, it is the only way for the Brothers to burnish their revolutionary credentials.

For Palin, of course, Israel also offers a chance to burnish her famously weak foreign policy credentials.

In 1961, Kennedy took a Latin American trip to burnish credentials for a 1962 Senate bid.

Sainton, more annoyed than he cared to show, drew his long neglected sword and began to burnish it affectionately.

How strangly does it burnish a Character, and oblige ones Reputation?

The lectern he had done his best to burnish; but it was still a cripple from the fire.

They could burnish gold and it stays as bright as when it was first applied to the leaves, even after seven centuries.

With the pallid first,And next the burnish'd, he so ply'd the gate,As to content me well.

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On this page you'll find 33 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to burnish, such as: buff, furbish, glance, glaze, gloss, and luster.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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