as in to rebuild
to make improvements or repairs to (something, such as a building)
They are refurbishing the old house. They sell refurbished computers.
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Recent Examples of refurbish
Once owned by the Browning Institute, the residence was transferred to Eton College in the early 1990s; Eton worked with the Landmark Trust to restore and refurbish it to reflect the way the rooms looked when the Brownings lived there.
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Catherine Sabino, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
The Artemis program’s rocket booster engines, casings, and main engines are all repurposed and refurbished from Space Shuttle craft.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 May 2025
The grants include $65 million for Los Angeles to refurbish the Metropolitan State Hospital campus in Norwalk into a psychiatric subacute facility for transitional-age youths, a big and glaring need for the region.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
The mass arrests, at first of mostly non-Jewish Poles, led the Nazis to construct new prison camps or refurbish existing structures, like the former military barracks in Oswiecim, Poland, which opened as the Auschwitz concentration camp in June 1940.
—Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2025
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Catherine Sabino, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
The Artemis program’s rocket booster engines, casings, and main engines are all repurposed and refurbished from Space Shuttle craft.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 May 2025
The grants include $65 million for Los Angeles to refurbish the Metropolitan State Hospital campus in Norwalk into a psychiatric subacute facility for transitional-age youths, a big and glaring need for the region.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
The mass arrests, at first of mostly non-Jewish Poles, led the Nazis to construct new prison camps or refurbish existing structures, like the former military barracks in Oswiecim, Poland, which opened as the Auschwitz concentration camp in June 1940.
—Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for refurbish
Verb
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Less than a week after the explosion destroyed his fertility clinic, Dr. Maher Abdallah vows to rebuild.—
Hailey Branson-Potts,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2025
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People rebuilt and reimagined their communities with the help of everything their ancestors left behind, while also, perhaps, vowing not to repeat their mistakes.—
Lizzie Wade,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 May 2025
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One plan is to renovate the Marine Stadium, an iconic structure that’s been closed since 1992.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
23 May 2025
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The district laid off and furloughed employees during that time, while scrapping plans to renovate or rebuild many decaying schools.—
Scott Travis,
Sun Sentinel,
22 May 2025
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After arriving in Italy, Dad was put in charge of a group, mostly mechanics, at a hangar in an airfield and kept track of the parts and supplies needed to repair the planes that landed there.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
24 May 2025
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Part of the factory’s roof caved in during a hurricane in 1988, and the damage was too extensive to repair, but about half of the building is still accessible.—
Lizzie Wade,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 May 2025
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