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Furnish

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To equip with what is needed, especially to provide furniture for.

v. To supply; give: "The story of Orpheus has furnished Pope with an illustration” ( Thomas Bulfinch).

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Material used to create an engineered product.

v. To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.

v. To supply or give.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn

v. To offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford.

n. That which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To provide; supply: used with with, and having a personal object: as, to furnish a family with food; to furnish a person with money for some purpose.

To provide for use; make or afford a provision of; supply; yield: with a thing as object: as, to furnish arms for defense; Normally furnishes the best draft-horses; this fact furnishes a strong argument against your theory.

To provide with what is proper or suitable; supply with anything; fit up or fit out; equip: as, to furnish a house, a library, or an expedition; to furnish the mind by study and observation.

Specifically In ceramics, to ornament with pieces molded separately and afterward attached to the object, as a vase with figures of flowers, or the like.

To provide one's self with equipment; equip one's self.

To provide furniture for a room or a house.

In racing slang, to take on flesh; improve in strength and appearance.

n. Provision; outfit; furniture; supply.

n. An obsolete variant of furnace.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. give something useful or necessary to

v. provide or equip with furniture

Word Usage

"It cost $18 million to design, build and furnish, which is about $3 million more than the average for the newly built branches."

Verb Form

furnished furnishes furnishing

Cross Reference

to furnish out

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

afford sample supply

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

burnish

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

furnishings ornamentation decoration adornment plentiful furniture ample embellishment