All varnish synonyms
varΒ·nish
V v verb varnish
- begrime β to make dirty; soil
- antiquing β of or belonging to the past; not modern.
- coat β A coat is a piece of clothing with long sleeves which you wear over your other clothes when you go outside.
- whitewash β a composition, as of lime and water or of whiting, size, and water, used for whitening walls, woodwork, etc.
- enamelled β (British) Simple past tense and past participle of enamel.
- luster β a person who lusts: a luster after power.
- crusted β If something is crusted with a substance, it is covered with a hard or thick layer of that substance.
- aurify β to turn into gold
- enamelling β (British) present participle of enamel.
- glaze β to furnish or fill with glass: to glaze a window.
- make light of β of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
- disguise β to change the appearance or guise of so as to conceal identity or mislead, as by means of deceptive garb: The king was disguised as a peasant.
- gloss over β an explanation or translation, by means of a marginal or interlinear note, of a technical or unusual expression in a manuscript text.
- lacquered β a protective coating consisting of a resin, cellulose ester, or both, dissolved in a volatile solvent, sometimes with pigment added.
- make like β to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- glamorise β (British spelling, Irish, South African, Australian and NZ) alternative spelling of glamorize.
- glamorize β to make glamorous.
- gild β to coat with gold, gold leaf, or a gold-colored substance.
- lacquering β a protective coating consisting of a resin, cellulose ester, or both, dissolved in a volatile solvent, sometimes with pigment added.
- lustre β lustrum (def 1).
- cover up β If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
- engild β (transitive) To gild; to make splendid.
- daub β When you daub a substance such as mud or paint on something, you spread it on that thing in a rough or careless way.
- ironing β Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20Β°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- incrust β to cover or line with a crust or hard coating.
- enameled β (US) Simple past tense and past participle of enamel.
- whites β of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light.
- whiting β a slender food fish of the genus Menticirrhus, of the croaker family, inhabiting waters along the Atlantic coast of North America.
- antiqued β An antiqued object is modern but has been made to look like an antique.
noun varnish
- greasepaint β an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
- coating β A coating of a substance is a thin layer of it spread over a surface.
- cloisonne β a design made by filling in with coloured enamel an outline of flattened wire put on edge
- acrylics β Plural form of acrylic.
- chroma β the attribute of a colour that enables an observer to judge how much chromatic colour it contains irrespective of achromatic colour present
- cover β If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
- gloss β an explanation or translation, by means of a marginal or interlinear note, of a technical or unusual expression in a manuscript text.
- lacquer β a protective coating consisting of a resin, cellulose ester, or both, dissolved in a volatile solvent, sometimes with pigment added.
- lamination β act or process of laminating; the state of being laminated.
- emulsion β A fine dispersion of minute droplets of one liquid in another in which it is not soluble or miscible.
- acrylic β Acrylic material is artificial and is manufactured by a chemical process.
- latex β a milky liquid in certain plants, as milkweeds, euphorbias, poppies, or the plants yielding India rubber, that coagulates on exposure to air.
- cosmetics β beauty preparations; make-up
- fixative β serving to fix; making fixed or permanent.
- glossiness β having a shiny or lustrous surface.
- encrustation β The action of encrusting or state of being encrusted.
- fig leaf β the leaf of a fig tree.
- enamel β An opaque or semitransparent glassy substance applied to metallic or other hard surfaces for ornament or as a protective coating.
- finish β to bring (something) to an end or to completion; complete: to finish a novel; to finish breakfast.
- latices β a plural of latex.
- japan β a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Capital: Tokyo. Japanese Nihon, Nippon.