1605, fromre- +furbish, fromMiddle Englishfurbishen, fromMiddle Frenchforbir(stemfurbiss-,“to clean, polish”), fromFrankish*furbēn(“to clean, polish”).
refurbish (third-person singular simple presentrefurbishes,present participlerefurbishing,simple past and past participlerefurbished)
- (transitive) Torebuild or replenish with allnew material; torestore to original (or better) working order andappearance.
We're having the sitting roomrefurbished, after a leak damaged a large part of the room.
2024 May 29, Peter Plisner, “Network News: Gibb plans HS2 alternative with 155mph Pendolinos”, inRAIL, number1010, page 6:He also makes the point that in France, SNCF is currentlyrefurbishing some TGVs built in 1988.
rebuild or replenish
- Arabic:جَدَّدَ(jaddada),صقل
- Bulgarian:подновявам (bg)(podnovjavam)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:翻新 (zh)(fānxīn),刷新 (zh)(shuāxīn)
- Dutch:opkalefateren (nl),renoveren (nl),opknappen (nl)
- Finnish:kunnostaa (fi),remontoida (fi)
- French:renouveler (fr),restaurer (fr)
- German:wiederaufarbeiten,restaurieren (de),generalüberholen (de),wiederinstand setzen,alleMangelbeseitigen,wiederineinengebrauchsfähigenZustandversetzen
- Greek:ανακαινίζω (el)(anakainízo)
- Hebrew:חִדֵּשׁ (he)
- Hungarian:felújít (hu)
- Italian:rinnovare (it),ammodernare (it)
- Japanese:改装する (ja)(かいそうする, kaisō suru)
- Latin:interpolō
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:pusse opp (no)
- Nynorsk:pusse opp
- Polish:odświeżać (pl),odnawiać (pl)
- Portuguese:restaurar (pt)
- Russian:восстана́вливать (ru)(vosstanávlivatʹ),обновля́ть (ru)(obnovljátʹ)
- Slovene:obnoviti
- Spanish:restaurar (es),reacondicionar (es),renovar (es),rehabilitar (es)
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