Definition of "depolish" [de•pol•ish]

• To remove the polish from. (verb)

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• "It is not necessary that the sand should be the harder substance of the two; corundum, for example, is much harder than quartz; still, quartz-sand can not only depolish, but actually blow a hole through a plate of corundum."