Definitions for veneer

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veneer ve·neer

Spelling: [vuh-neer]

IPA: /vəˈnɪər/

Veneer is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in veneer (eeenrv).

Definitions for veneer

noun

1. a thin layer of wood or other material for facing or inlaying wood.
2. any of the thin layers of wood glued together to form plywood.
3. Building Trades. a facing of a certain material applied to a different one or to a type of construction not ordinarily associated with it, as a facing of brick applied to a frame house.
4. a superficially valuable or pleasing appearance:

verb (used with object)

1. to overlay or face (wood) with thin sheets of some material, as a fine wood, ivory, or tortoise shell.
2. to face or cover (an object) with any material that is more desirable as a surface material than the basic material of the object; revet.
3. to cement (layers of wood veneer) to form plywood.
4. to give a superficially valuable or pleasing appearance to.

Origin of veneer

1695-1705; earlier fineering, faneering German Fourni(e)rung, Furni(e)rung, equivalent to furni(e)ren to furnish (French fournir) + -ung -ing

Examples for veneer

Some of his preciousness is a veneer, however, for his fatalistic streak.

Of course, the fact that Tris faces and eviscerates her own anxiety lends the simulation scene a veneer of victory and autonomy.

While it upholds a veneer of pretending that the Arab spring has benefitted Iran, in reality the opposite holds true.

This veneer had come unloosened in many places and was split up.

Truthfulness is essential to culture, which, without it, will be only a veneer.

A second time I glimpsed the Slav behind his veneer of civilization.

But that veneer hides an inner drive so powerful that it risks turning on itself.

Some have no veneer like this boor, and some have the polish, but they are all the same underneath.

But now that veneer is gone, and what remains is a callow man-child at odds with himself.

Or is it a factory, disguised with a veneer of the Puginesque?