REFURBISH

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they refurbish ... he / she / it refurbishes

Past simple: refurbished

Past participle: refurbished

-ing form: refurbishing

Meaning:

Make brighter and prettier

Example:

My wife wants us to renovate

Synonyms:

freshen up; refurbish; renovate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "refurbish" is one way to...):

regenerate; renew (reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "refurbish"):

gentrify (renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

refurbishment (the state of being restored to its former good condition)