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- Dictionaryre·fur·nish/rēˈfərniSH/
verb
- 1. furnish (a room or building) again or differently: "the bedrooms have been recently refurnished"
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In its earliest uses furbish also meant "to polish," but it developed an extended sense of "to renovate" shortly before English speakers created refurbish with the same meaning in the 17th century. These days refurbish is the more common of the two words, although furbish does continue to be used.
Synonyms for REFURBISH: rebuild, renovate, repair, restore, reconstruct, fix, maintain, service; Antonyms of REFURBISH: break, hurt, ruin, damage, impair, injure, spoil, wreck.