furbishing

Verb

furbish (third-person singular simple present furbishes, present participle furbishing, simple past and past participle furbished)

1. To polish or burnish.

   Synonyms:

   wax, shine, polish, buff, burnish

2. 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