FURBISH UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does furbish up mean? 

• FURBISH UP (verb)
  The verb FURBISH UP has 1 sense:

1. restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

  Familiarity information: FURBISH UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FURBISH UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

bushel; doctor; fix; furbish up; mend; repair; restore; touch on

Context example:

Repair my shoes please

Hypernyms (to "furbish up" is one way to...):

ameliorate; amend; better; improve; meliorate (to make better)

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

fiddle; tinker (try to fix or mend)

fill (plug with a substance)

patch; piece (repair by adding pieces)

cobble (repair or mend)

point; repoint (repair the joints of bricks)

trouble-shoot; troubleshoot (solve problems)

patch; patch up (mend by putting a patch on)

resole; sole (put a new sole on)

revamp; vamp (provide (a shoe) with a new vamp)

heel; reheel (put a new heel on)

darn (repair by sewing)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

She would have Sophie to look over all her "toilettes," as she called frocks; to furbish up any that were "passees," and to air and arrange the new.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then, signior, I lay on you my sovereign behest to furbish up your lungs and other vocal organs, as they will be wanted on my royal service.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)