furbish
verb (used with object)
to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up).
furbished
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past participleof furbish.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof furbish.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
furbishverb (used with object)to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up).
Example Sentences
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Elaborately staged, furbished with the faultless voice of Miss Ponselle, it will, they think, be popular.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nineteen years later the flagon had been furbished up, called the America's Cup, put in competition for the second time.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile the U. S. S. Houston, fitted and furbished as never before, was steaming to Annapolis to pick up President Roosevelt for the longest holiday out of the U. S. ever taken by a President.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fans, neckcloths, puffed and powdered melodies furbished once more the elegant infidelities of Manon Lescaitt; pompous swaddlings adorned the familiar French-Hebrew heroics of Samson et Dalila.
From Time Magazine Archive
The man was evidently a sort of character, a swaggerer who wished to pass for a gentleman and a soldier, albeit his elbows were ragged, and his whole dress patched and furbished up.
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling
