transitive. To restore, renovate (a building or part of a building). Obsolete.

transitive. To boil, bake, or cook a second or further time. Also figurative: to revamp, overhaul; (chiefly depreciative) to rehash.

transitive. To polish a second or further time. Also figurative, esp. with reference to the re-editing or improvement of a written composition. Also…

To brush or clean up (anything faded or soiled); to give a new look to (an object either material or immaterial); to do or get up afresh, renovate…

transitive. To provide or furnish with a (new) vamp; to mend or repair with or as with patches; to furbish up, renovate, or restore. Also with up.

transitive. To polish or furbish up; to put a fresh gloss on. Obsolete. rare.

transferred and figurative. (Frequently with reference to literary compositions.)

transitive. = revamp, v. Also with up.

transitive. To give a new and improved form, structure, or appearance to; to renovate; to overhaul; to revise.

transitive. Originally: to brighten or clean up (cf. furbish, v. 1). Later: to restore to good condition, to renovate; (now esp.) to repair and…

to fig out: to dress, ‘get up’. Also to fig up: to furbish up, make ‘smart’.

transitive. North American. To repair, renovate, or refurbish (a vehicle, building, etc.); to refit.

transitive. To subject to a face-lifting operation or process (see face, n.). Chiefly in extended use: to redesign, refurbish (something). Cf. fac…

transitive. Chiefly in classified advertisements: = refurbish, v. Occasionally intransitive with object implied.