Definitions for burnish

burnish bur·nish

Spelling: [bur-nish]
IPA: /ˈbɜr nɪʃ/

Burnish is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 131 anagrams from letters in burnish (bhinrsu).

Definitions for burnish

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 burnish

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 burnish

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Word Value for burnish
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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