japanned

verb

past tense of japan
as in varnished

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  1. varnished
  2. coated
  3. glazed
  4. burnished
  5. polished
  6. glossed
  7. rubbed
  8. ground
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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
  • Reaching the island is all part of the fun too, requiring you to hop aboard a vintage, slickly varnished wooden boat at Balmaha and schedule a pick-up time for the way back.
    — Rosie Conroy, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2026
Definition of varnished
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  • Toss until evenly coated, check the seasoning and adjust as necessary.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The scientific payoff that followed included remote-sensing work that confirmed Bennu's surface is coated in carbon-bearing compounds.
    — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of coated
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  • The crock is salt-glazed, giving it a coarser texture than a smoother zinc glaze.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 29 Jan. 2026
Definition of glazed
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  • Yakuza gangs also burnished their reputation by helping ordinary citizens with problems that the authorities couldn’t or didn’t wish to handle.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Since opening its doors in 1876, literary lions including Somerset Maugham, Noël Coward, and Graham Greene have helped create the hotel's seductive reputation, which was recently burnished by cameos in the third season of The White Lotus.
    — Tony Perrottet, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of burnished
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  • Brewster-walker guides me up a back road to a grassy knoll dotted with gravestones polished smooth by the salt breeze.
    — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2026
  • As part of the extensive refurbishment, the vehicle was rid of some aftermarket add-ons and had its exterior smoothed out and polished to a brilliant, like-new shine.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of polished
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  • Even a side order of Southern collard greens comes as a surprise, cooked until tender, then glossed with butter rather than swimming in potlikker.
    — John Kessler, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Scotland glossed up the scoreline with two more tries in the last six minutes by Cummings and Dobie again to send home a crowd of 55,000 happy.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 July 2026
Definition of glossed
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  • Then Kip caught himself and, by way of saying thanks, rubbed his belly, smiled big, gave me the finger.
    — George Saunders, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The reaction from Chiefs Kingdom rubbed a former player the wrong way.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of rubbed
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  • While tree hugging isn’t typically my thing, the experience was unexpectedly grounding and deeply calming.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026
  • These kinds of phrases are grounding and can help contain some of that anxiety.
    — Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026
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