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▸ verb:  (transitive)
▸ verb:  To make (something, such as a surface) bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; to polish, to shine.
▸ verb:  Of a stag: to remove the velvet (“skin and fine fur”) from (its antlers) by rubbing them against something; to velvet.
▸ verb:  (figuratively) To make (someone or something) appear positive and highly respected.
▸ verb:  (intransitive)
▸ verb:  To become bright, glossy, and smooth; to brighten, to gleam, to shine forth.
▸ noun:  (countable)
▸ noun:  A shine of something which has been polished; a lustre, a polish.
▸ noun:  A shiny layer applied to a surface or other thing.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) The making of something bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; (countable) an instance of this; a burnishing, a polishing, a shining.
▸ verb:  Of a person's body: to grow large or stout; to fatten, to fill out.
▸ verb:  (by extension) Of a thing: to increase in size; to expand, to spread out, to swell.





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