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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 burnishing
 擠光; 擦亮; 磨光; 摩擦拋光

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bur·nish v. t. [imp. & p. p. Burnished p. pr. & vb. n. Burnishing.]  To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper.
 The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare
 From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air.   --Dryden.
 Now the village windows blaze,
 Burnished by the setting sun.   --Cunningham.
 Burnishing machine, a machine for smoothing and polishing by compression, as in making paper collars.