Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make clean, bright, or fresh again; renovate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To furbish anew; polish up.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To furbish anew.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
rebuild or replenish with allnew material; torestore to original (or better) working order andappearance .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make brighter and prettier
Etymologies
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1605, from re- + furbish, from Middle English furbishen, from Old French furbir (stem furbiss-, "to clean, polish"), from Frankish *furbjan (“to clean, polish”), from Proto-Germanic *furbijanan (“to clean”), from Proto-Indo-European *prep- (“to appear”). Cognate with Old High German furben ("to clean, cleanse, purge, sweep").
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