furbish up

Questions about furbish up

What does furbish up mean?

furbish up means "restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken".

What is another word for furbish up?

Close synonyms include repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is furbish up a common word?

furbish up is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.