gild

verb

Definition of gildnext
1
as in to varnish

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2
as in to paint

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Recent Examples of gild Above the altar the names of the three documents had been chiseled into a large gray marble panel and then gilded. — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026 The Moreno brothers, who grew up in Puebla, Mexico, did not invent birria or its deployment on tortillas gilded in beef fat. — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026 Or, just gild the lily here and go for the surf and turf. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 May 2026 Don Quixote is about refusing to see the world in its actual grubby reality; to rather gild it in the beauties of our own invention. — Ed Simon september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gild
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gild
  1. varnish
  2. paint
  3. whitewash
  4. embroider
  5. bury
  6. wreathe
  7. smother
  8. fringe
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  • Although pest control companies offer lethal solutions such as carpenter bee traps or chemical treatments, the best way to keep carpenter bees from bugging you is using stained, sealed, varnished or treated wood in building projects.
    — Sarah Linn April 24, Sacbee.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Bringing a top-tier women’s sports event to the country and having its citizens watch women compete represented an opportunity to varnish its human-rights record, which has been criticized by several organizations regarding its treatment of women.
    — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026
Definition of varnish
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  • Be sure to plan at least one evening on-property to catch the sunset, when the mountains are painted in shades of pink and purple before giving way to a sky filled with twinkling stars.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Aug. 2026
  • As the back-to-school shopping season winds down, retail sales data and several consumer surveys paint a picture of shoppers who are being impacted by higher costs, are more cautious with their spending and dealing with more stress.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of paint
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  • Japan’s Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum has been accused of whitewashing the country’s wartime past.
    — George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 29 July 2026
  • Critics have warned that the new panels replacing the ones exhibited since 2010 whitewash the history of slavery.
    — Corey Williams, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
Definition of whitewash
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  • And Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum wears dresses and blouses embroidered by Indigenous artisans to honor their textile traditions.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Likely embroidered in Canterbury, it is considered a significant icon of British identity and left England sometime before the late fifteenth century.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of embroider
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  • But buried inside imperfect delivery is often an important standard.
    — Mark Nevins, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • But that’s a small, technical point buried in the fine print.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of bury
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  • In the bathroom, there are shuttered windows wreathed with Como silk and a luscious roll-top bath.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • On a hill wreathed in mist above the dark sea that runs between New Zealand’s North and South Islands, Ward and others crossed rugged farmland late on Tuesday night, carrying seven crates in silence by dim red torchlight.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
Definition of wreathe
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  • The students were smart, curious and desperate to escape a communist system that had smothered their families’ ambitions for decades.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Soldiers marched the victims to bomb craters at Kamianets-Podilskyi and turned machine guns on them; they were either shot or smothered.
    — USA TODAY, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of smother
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  • Castelo Ventoso is up a long dirt track fringed with cork trees.
    — Lucy Gillmore, Travel + Leisure, 30 July 2026
  • This spot, littered in condom wrappers and fringed by jungle, is familiar to her.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
Definition of fringe

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