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[ sil-ver-ing ] / ˈsɪl vər ɪŋ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR silvering ON THESAURUS.COM
nounthe act or process of coating with silver or a substance resembling silver. the coating thus applied: the silvering of the mirror. Origin of silveringFirst recorded in 1700–10; silver + -ing1 Words nearby silveringsilver goal, silver gray, silver hake, silver halide, silverhorn, silvering, silver iodate, silver iodide, Silverius, silverize, silver jenny Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for silveringGray hairs seem to my fancy like the light of a soft moon, silvering over the evening of life. Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources|James Wood The moon, silvering the treetops, made numberless flakes of light amid the dense foliage. Fromont and Risler, Complete|Alphonse Daudet Then a shoal of some smaller kind rippled the surface as they played about, silvering the blue water with their armoured sides. Mother Carey's Chicken|George Manville Fenn The stars paled and the moon rose softly above the tree-tops, silvering the world beneath. Prisoners of Hope|Mary Johnston
Words related to silveringbleach, layer, scale, enamel, overlay, laminate, cover, flake, gild, foil, face, stratify, silver, bronze, platinize, nickel, anodize, chrome, encrust, electroplate |