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REFURNISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does refurnish mean?
• REFURNISH (verb)
The verb REFURNISH has 1 sense:
1. furnish with new or different furniture
Familiarity information: REFURNISH used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they refurnish ... he / she / it refurnishes
Past simple: refurnished
Past participle: refurnished
-ing form: refurnishing
... he / she / it refurnishes Past simple: refurnished
Past participle: refurnished
-ing form: refurnishing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Furnish with new or different furniture
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Context example:
We refurnished the living room
Hypernyms (to "refurnish" is one way to...):
furnish (provide or equip with furniture)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples
A spare parlour and bedroom I refurnished entirely, with old mahogany and crimson upholstery: I laid canvas on the passage, and carpets on the stairs.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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