Usually means: Made smooth and shiny by rubbing.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. burnished: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. burnished: Collins English Dictionary
  3. burnished: Vocabulary.com
  4. Burnished, burnished: Wordnik
  5. burnished: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. burnished: Wiktionary
  7. Burnished, burnished: Dictionary.com
  8. Burnished: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Burnished: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. burnished: Rhymezone
  11. Burnished: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. burnished: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. burnished: Free Dictionary
  14. burnished: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. burnished: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. burnished: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Burnished: Coin Collecting

(Note: See burnish as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (burnished)

adjective:  Polished, made shiny by rubbing (especially with a burnisher).
adjective:  (figurative) Blazing, bright.

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