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🎭 A false appearance 🪵 A thin layer 🪵 To cover
to veneer

to veneer

1 6.0
To cover a surface with a thin layer of good wood or stone to make it look better
  • verb
  • /vəˈnɪr/
translation icon : enchapar
  • They plan to veneer the furniture in their new restaurant to match the modern decor.

There's problems that come with that, like replacements of them and more issues to roots in the teeth that have been veneered or crowned.

Examples

  • The old man slammed down his beer, sloshing some onto a veneered end table.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Do not purchase furniture or other wood products made with or veneered with wood from mahogany, teak, and other tropical trees unless they have been grown on a plantation, and make sure that plantation owners are not stripping land of native vegetation.

    Academic text (1993)

  • To enhance its beauty, she decided to veneer the old table with a layer of mahogany.

  • The craftsmen will veneer the door with a fine layer of oak to give it a more elegant look.

Synonyms

to laminate
vsto veneer
11 4.3

To cover something with a thin plastic layer to protect it

focuses on improving appearance using a thin layer of fine material

Antonyms

to strip
42 2.7

Remove all covering or contents from an object so it is left bare

How Thick

to panel
13 5.3
to laminate
3 4.9
to veneer
1 6.0
to coat
105 2.8

Surface Forms

veneer infinitive
veneered past
veneered past participle
veneering present participle
veneers third person singular

Etymology

Veneer as a verb comes from the same furniture idea: craftsmen would put a thin 'layer' of fine wood on a piece to improve its look. That's why to veneer something today means to 'cover' it with a thin, nicer surface.