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51spruce up — Synonyms and related words: adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, blazon, brighten up, brush up, clean up, clear the decks, clear up, color, dandify, deck, deck out, decorate, dizen, doll up, dress, dress up, embellish, emblazon, embroider,… …
52tone up — Synonyms and related words: atone, attune, brighten up, brush up, chord, fix, freshen, furbish, furbish up, polish, polish up, put in tune, renovate, repair, retouch, revive, rub up, shine, spruce, spruce up, string, tone down, touch up, tune,… …
53touch up — Synonyms and related words: brighten up, brush up, do up, fix, fix up, freshen, furbish, furbish up, improve, perfect, polish, polish up, renovate, repair, retouch, revive, rub up, shine, spruce, spruce up, tone up, vamp, vamp up …
54vamp — Synonyms and related words: Aspasia, Circe, Delilah, Don Juan, Jezebel, Lorelei, Messalina, Parthenope, Phryne, Siren, Thais, Vorspiel, ad lib, adventuress, allure, attract, becharm, beguile, bewitch, brighten up, brush up, cadenza, captivate,… …
55burnish — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. polish (See light, smoothness). II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. polish, buff, shine; see polish , shine 3 . See Synonym Study at polish . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. polish, smooth, brighten, furbish …
56polish — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. sheen, luster, shine, glaze, gloss; refinement, culture; courtesytact, suavity, diplomacy; discernment, discrimination. v. t. shine, buff, burnish; scrub, scour, brighten; refine, perfect. See… …
57shine — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. glow, gleam, scintillate; excel; polish, wax, burnish. See light, repute. take a shine to II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To give forth light] Syn. radiate, beam, scintillate, glitter, sparkle, twinkle,… …
58refurbish — (v.) 1610s, from RE (Cf. re ) again + FURBISH (Cf. furbish), on model of Fr. refourbir. Related: Refurbished; refurbishing …
59polish — [n1] shine, brightness brilliance, burnish, finish, glaze, glint, gloss, luster, sheen, smoothness, sparkle, varnish, veneer, wax; concepts 492,611,620 Ant. dullness polish [n2] cultivated look, performance breeding, class, cultivation, culture,… …
60Fur|bish lousewort — «FUR bihsh», a rare species of lousewort discovered in Maine in 1880 and thought to be extinct until rediscovered in 1976: »The Furbish lousewort, despite its unprepossessing name is…delicate and fernlike (Philip Shabecoff). ╂[< Kate Furbish,… …
