furbishes
furbishes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of furbish.
Meaning of furbish
Verb
furbish (third-person singular simple present furbishes, present participle furbishing, simple past and past participle furbished)
- To polish or burnish.
- To renovate or recondition; to refurbish.
- I do not indeed suppose that anyone can at this time of day effect that which the sense of all good men failed to effect while he lived--I mean the final killing of those rumours; nor is a plain tale likely to persuade those, with whom idle reports, constantly furbished up, of letters seen in...1897, Stanley John Weyman, chapter I, in Shrewsbury
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- What is furbishes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
- Furbishes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of furbish.
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