Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To destroy the polish of; remove the glaze from; dull.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To remove the polish or glaze from.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To remove the polish from.
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Examples
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It is not necessary that the sand should be the harder substance of the two; corundum, for example, is much harder than quartz; still, quartz-sand can not only depolish, but actually blow a hole through a plate of corundum.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856
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