| VERB | change | refurbish, renovate, freshen up | make brighter and prettier |
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| Sounds | riyfer'bihsh | |
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| Rhymes | abolish ... Yiddish: 161 rhymes with ihsh... | |
| Meaning | make brighter and prettier. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "we refurbished the guest wing" | |
| Synonyms | renovate, freshen up | |
| Narrower | gentrify | renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations |
| Broader | regenerate, renew | reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new |
| Spanish | reformar, remozar, renovar, restaurar | |
| Catalan | renovar, restaurar | |
| Nouns | refurbishment | the state of being restored to its former good condition |
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