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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: refresh one's memory; "I reviewed the material before the test" [syn: review, brush up, refresh]
2: bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state; "polish your social manners" [syn: polish, round, round off, polish up, brush up]

Merriam Webster's

verb Date: circa 1600 transitive verb 1. to improve or polish as if by brushing 2. to renew one's skill in <brush up your Spanish> intransitive verb to refresh one's memory ; renew one's skill <brush up on math> • brushup noun

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

or brush up on If you brush up something or brush up on it, you practise it or improve your knowledge of it. I had hoped to brush up my Spanish... Eleanor spent much of the summer brushing up on her driving. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V P P n

Moby Thesaurus

bone up, brighten up, cram, cram up, dress, fettle, fix, freshen, furbish, furbish up, get up, get up on, groom, manicure, plume, polish, polish up, preen, read up on, refresh the memory, renovate, repair, restudy, retouch, review, revive, rub up, shine, spruce, spruce up, study up, study up on, tone up, touch up, vamp, vamp up