furbish

present singular third person furbishes · participle present furbishing · participle past furbished · past furbished

1. To polish or burnish.

   Synonyms: wax, shine, polish, buff, burnish

2. To renovate or recondition; to refurbish.

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   I do not indeed suppose that anyone can at this time of day effect that which the sense of all good men failed to effect while he lived--I mean the final killing of those rumours; nor is a plain tale likely to persuade those, with whom idle reports, constantly furbished up, of letters seen in France, weigh more than a consistent life.

   1897, Stanley John Weyman, chapter I, in Shrewsbury