say it: ree-FUR-bish
refurbish is a verb meaning "make brighter and prettier". It carries one recorded sense.
make brighter and prettier
“we refurbished the guest wing”
“My wife wants us to renovate”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for refurbish come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.