Word Meanings - FURBISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To rub or scour to brightness; to clean; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear. Shak. Furbish new the name of John a Gaunt. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FURBISH)

• Garnish
• Deck
• furnish
• adorn
• dress
• furbish
• beautify
• embellish
• decorate
• ornament
• Interpolate
• Interlard
• interweave
• import
• garble
• gloss
• intersperse
• introduce
• Polish
• Burnish
• levigate
• brighten
• refine
• make glossy
• Produce
• Exhibit
• bear
• afford
• cause
• create
• originate
• yield
• extend
• prolong
• lengthen
• Renew
• Recreate
• restore
• refresh
• renovate
• rejuvenate
• recommence
• repeat
• reiterate
• reissue
• regenerate
• reform
• transform

Related words: (words related to FURBISH)

• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• REPEATEDLY
  More than once; again and again; indefinitely.
• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• RENOVATE
  To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew. All nature feels the reniovating force Of winter. Thomson. (more info) renovare;pref. re- re- + novare to make new, fr. novus new. See New,
• GLOSSA
  The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.
• GLOSSIST
  A writer of comments. Milton.
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• GARNISHMENT
  1. Ornament; embellishment; decoration. Sir H. Wotton. Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter. Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the
• ADORNINGLY
  By adorning; decoratively.
• GLOSSOLOGY
  1. The definition and explanation of terms; a glossary. 2. The science of language; comparative philology; linguistics; glottology.
• GLOSSARIAL
  Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary; containing a glossary.
• GARNISHEE
  One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money. Note: The order by which warning is made is called a garnishee
• IMPORTUNELY
  In an importune manner.
• ADORNATION
  Adornment.
• GLOSSOLOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to glossology.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• REPEAT
  To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn.
• UNCREATED
  1. Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl. 2. Not yet created; as, misery uncreated. Milton. 3. Not existing by creation; self-existent; eternal; as, God is an uncreated being. Locke.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• DEGARNISHMENT
  The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison.
• PROCREATE
  To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• REISSUE
  To issue a second time.
• RE-CREATE
  To create or form anew. On opening the campaign of 1776, instead of reënforcing, it was necessary to re-create, the army. Marshall.