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varnisht

varnisht is the obsolete form of varnished.

varnisht is the simple past and past participle of varnish.

Meaning of varnished

Adjective

varnished

  1. coated or decorated with varnish

Meaning of varnish

Verb

varnish (third-person singular simple present varnishes, present participle varnishing, simple past and past participle varnished)

  1. (intransitive) To apply varnish.
  2. (transitive) To cover up with varnish.
  3. (transitive) To make something superficially or deceptively attractive
    • varnish the report
  4. (transitive) To gloss over a defect.
    • [...] Go love thy infant; love thy wood-chopper: be good-natured and modest: have that grace; and never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home.1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”, in Essays: First Series

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Forms of varnisht

comparativemore varnisht
superlativemost varnisht

Questions about varnisht

What is varnisht the obsolete form of?
Varnisht is the obsolete form of varnished.

Words near varnisht in the dictionary

  1. varnishleaf
  2. varnishless
  3. varnishlike
  4. varnishment
  5. varnishments
  6. varnisht
  7. varnishy
  8. Varns
  9. varnsingite
  10. Varnum
  11. Varnums

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Adapted from Wiktionary: varnisht (page history and authors); varnished (page history and authors); varnish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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