to refurbish
31
4.6
- verb
- /rɪˈfɜrbɪʃ/
:
renovar
- She decided to refurbish her grandmother's antique chair, giving it a fresh coat of paint and new upholstery.
- refurbished building
- refurbished hotel
- refurbish the shrine
This is going to make the process of refurbishing this thing a lot easier.
- This is going to make the process of refurbishing this thing a lot easier.
- So I'm treating myself to a day of wearing sweatpants and refurbishing this old fire alarm.
- His hobby was collecting John Deere tractors and like, you know, refurbishing them and painting them green.
- Now, do I believe that Escobar Inc is the ones refurbishing it?
- If the property has goodies like pools and gyms, that stuff needs maintaining, fixing, or refurbishing.
- So in that way you're starting with a, with a, with a team that's has been refurbished, redesigned new technical staff.
- Subsequently I found out that he was using it to refurbish his kitchen in Silicon Valley and also buy a brand new BMW.
- I realized that when we, when we refurbished the whole program and, and, and said, OK, be your own bodyguards ready to go.
Examples
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The owner completely renovated and refurbished the entire unit with all the latest and greatest amenities.
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Photo (color): In an attempt to recreate its past, the government is protecting and refurbishing important historic sites.
Academic text (2007) -
Closely related to funding is the need to build new schools and refurbish old ones.
Academic text (2002) -
People wind up their farm work, refurbish their homes, and prepare for the arrival of guests.
Academic text (2008) -
Many hotels have been refurbished, bringing back the feeling of the old days of Miami Beach.
Academic text (1996) -
It was an old bomb shelter that was refurbished after the war.
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Crossing School Street, she entered the elegant, refurbished old City Hall building that housed Robert's office.
Fiction book (1991) -
The original brick streets were refurbished, and the narrow lanes were protected from widening.
Academic text (2008) -
For example, IMF assistance to Russia has been partly linked to refurbishing vital oil infrastructure.
Academic text (1992) -
Last year, we started bringing back donated vehicles damaged from overseas missions, and we refurbish them here, sell them, help make profits for our rehab operations.
Synonyms
76
3.8
To repair and improve a building or room so it looks new again
45
4.8
To give new life and energy to something
41
3.2
To change the inside of a room by adding new paint, wallpaper, or furniture
41
4.9
To change something to make it look or work better
35
4.6
To check and fix or change something completely to make it work better
27
1.3
Paint something again to make it look new or different
19
3.4
Change parts of a room or building to make it look new
9
4.9
To repair and return a building or system to good condition
9
6.1
Make furniture or floors look new by removing old paint and putting on new paint
9
3.2
To make a place or person more attractive by adding decorations like paint
6
5.5
Bring something back to a better or original state
4
3.0
Make a room look cleaner and nicer with small changes
3
5.4
To fix something so it works well again
2
3.7
To fix a building or object so it is usable again
1
6.7
To put new material on the surface of something so it looks new
1
4.1
To put a new clear coat on wood to restore its shine
Make a room or building better by fixing and changing it
To make something old look new by fixing or cleaning it
To make something feel new and alive again
Make something like it was before or better
Make a surface shine again by rubbing it
Antonyms
How Renewed
485
2.8
219
3.5
76
3.8
31
4.6
- Informal
13
3.8
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word refurbish comes from re- meaning 'again' and furbish, an old word meaning 'to polish' or 'make bright'. So to refurbish something is to repair, clean, or decorate it to make it look like new again.