Definitions for burnishes

burnishes bur·nish

Spelling: [bur-nish]
IPA: /ˈbɜr nɪʃ/

Burnishes is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 362 anagrams from letters in burnishes (behinrssu).

Definitions for burnishes

noun

  1. gloss; brightness; luster:

verb (used with object)

  1. to polish (a surface) by friction.
  2. to make smooth and bright.
  3. Engraving. to flatten and enlarge the dots of (a halftone) by rubbing with a tool.

Origin of burnishes

1275-1325; Middle English burnissh Anglo-French burniss-, Middle French bruniss- (long stem of burnir, brunir to darken, polish), equivalent to brun- brown + -iss- <

Examples for burnishes

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

The perfect night sky shone coldly with the burnish of its million stars.

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

The burnish was gone from every part of the landscape, and a mild twilight reigned.

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

burnish them if necessary, and you will see a band of light reflected from each wire.

This was a great avenue of trees, lined with the burnish of copper beeches.

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

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

Their first care was to burnish up their armour and their weapons.

Word Value for burnishes
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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