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
Cleaners furbished up the D. A. R.'s Constitution Memorial Hall where the evening ceremonials would occur.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week a group of Manhattan bankers and labor leaders furbished up a new sort of bait to attract the $6,000,000,000 to $7,000,000,000 which U. S. labor accumulates each year.
From Time Magazine Archive
For as we were encamped some half-hour from Rehnen, I had leave to go into the town with my dear comrade, there to have those arms furbished up which we had just received.
From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen
