glossed in English

verb

1

apply a cosmetic gloss to.

She went natural on the makeup, too, applying just a hint of silvery-lilac shadow to her eyes and glossing up her lips with a frosty pink.

synonyms: make glossy, shine, glaze, polish, burnish

2

try to conceal or disguise (something embarrassing or unfavorable) by treating it briefly or representing it misleadingly.

the social costs of this growth are glossed over

synonyms: conceal, cover up, hide, disguise, mask, veil, shrug off, brush aside, play down, minimize, understate, make light of, brush under the carpet

3

provide an explanation, interpretation, or paraphrase for (a text, word, etc.).

He glosses the term as ‘being a colloquial word for anger’.

synonyms: explain, interpret, explicate, define, elucidate, annotate, translate, paraphrase

verb

make glossy, shine, glaze, polish, burnish
conceal, cover up, hide, disguise, mask, veil, shrug off, brush aside, play down, minimize, understate, make light of, brush under the carpet
explain, interpret, explicate, define, elucidate, annotate, translate, paraphrase
comment, annotate
color

Use "glossed" in a sentence

1. A nesting cormorant glared at us with green eyes, its black feathers glossed with a purple sheen.

2. As Annie adjusted the nappies under the wriggling body, she glossed back over the previous week.

3. 27 It was a badly researched documentary which glossed over important questions while pointing up trivial ones.

4. She glossed over the company's fall in profits, focusing instead on her plans for investment and modernization.

5. What many would-be reformers have glossed over is the transition problems involved in going from one system to another.

6. President Kennedy glossed over the racial animus in Mississippi as he let the issue die by moving on to other concerns.

7. While Pho creates rather delicate-looking work with minutely detailed decoration, Fleming draws upon his strong design background to create robust, Beauteously shaped, highly glossed objects

8. Eas quae dant Abortionem facienda medicamenta, & quae fetus necantia venena accipiunt, homicidae poenis subjicimus.19 These strictures are repeated and glossed by theologians and canonists

9. Aspidistra elatior ‘Milky Way’ (ex: Jonathan Lehrer) – All new dark green semi-glossed leaves are gently, subtly spotted in yellow maturing creamy white on this dwarf growing cultivar with broad leaves