Polish: daily updated vocabulary with pictures

• pol‧ish [transitive]
• 1 to make something smooth, bright, and shiny by rubbing it:
• I spent all afternoon polishing the silver.
• polish something with something
• Polish the lenses with a piece of tissue.
• 2 to improve a piece of writing, a speech etc by making slight changes to it before it is completely finished:
• Your essay is good, you just need to polish it a bit.
• —polishing noun [uncountable]

• polish somebody/something ↔ off 

  phrasal verb
• a) to finish food, work etc quickly or easily:
• Sam polished off the rest of the pizza.
• b) American English to kill or defeat a person or animal when they are weak or wounded:
• He was polished off with a shotgun blast to the face.

• polish something ↔ up 

  phrasal verb
• 1 also polish up on something to improve a skill or an ability by practising it:
• You should polish up your Spanish before you go to Chile.
• 2 to make something seem better or more attractive to other people:
• The company needs to polish up its image.
• 3 to polish something
• Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 
  Advanced Learner's Dictionary.