polish

1. (transitive) To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.Examples: "He polished up the chrome until it gleamed."Synonyms: wax, shine, buff, furbish, burnish, smooth, bonetransitive

2. (transitive) To refine; remove imperfections from.Examples: "The band has polished its performance since the last concert."; "Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it."transitive

3. (transitive) To apply shoe polish to shoes.transitive

4. (intransitive) To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface.Examples: "Steel polishes well."; "The other [gold], whether it will polish so well Wherein for the latter [brass] it is probable it will"intransitive

5. (transitive) To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite.Examples: "Arts that polish Life."transitive