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Furbished vs Polished - What's the difference?

furbished | polished |

As verbs the difference between furbished and polished

is that furbished is (furbish) while polished is (polish).

As adjectives the difference between furbished and polished

is that furbished is polished, burnished while polished is made smooth or shiny by polishing.

furbished

English

Verb

(head)
  • (furbish)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Polished, burnished.
  • Reconditioned.
  • polished

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made smooth or shiny by polishing.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,
  • Refined, elegant.
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  • She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished , pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

    Derived terms

    * impolished * perpolished * polishedly * polishedness * unpolished * well-polished

    Verb

    (head)
  • (polish)
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