Furbish

ahd-5
  • transitive verb. To brighten by cleaning or rubbing; polish.
  • transitive verb. To restore to attractive or serviceable condition; renovate.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To rub or scour to brightness; polish; burnish.
  • Figuratively, to clear from taint or stain; renew the glory or brightness of; renovate.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To rub or scour to brightness; to clean; to burnish.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To polish or burnish.
  • verb. To renovate or recondition.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. polish and make shiny
    • Word Usage
    "As we exchange these few but amiable remarks about country houses, I furbish him up and make him concrete."
    Form
    furbished  furbishing  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    polish  shine  smooth  smoothen  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    refurbish  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    anesthetist  brokenness  caboodle  coping  creaming  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    adorn  array  beautify  bedeck  bedizen  
    verb-form
    furbished  furbishes  furbishing  
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