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furbisht

furbisht is the obsolete form of furbished.

furbisht is the simple past and past participle of furbish.

Meaning of furbished

Adjective

furbished (comparative more furbished, superlative most furbished)

  1. Polished, burnished.
  2. Reconditioned.

Meaning of furbish

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

Forms of furbisht

comparativemore furbisht
superlativemost furbisht

Questions about furbisht

What is furbisht the obsolete form of?
Furbisht is the obsolete form of furbished.

Words near furbisht in the dictionary

  1. furbisher
  2. furbishers
  3. furbishes
  4. furbishing
  5. furbishings
  6. furbisht
  7. furbucillin
  8. furburger
  9. furburgers
  10. Furbush
  11. Furbushes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: furbisht (page history and authors); furbished (page history and authors); furbish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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