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furnish verb [ ˈfəːnɪʃ ]

• provide (a house or room) with furniture and fittings.
• "the proprietor has furnished the bedrooms in a variety of styles"
Similar: provide with furniture, fit out, rig out, appoint, outfit, embellish, enhance, kit out,
• be a source of; provide.
• "fish furnish an important source of protein"
Similar: supply, equip, provide, provision, issue, fix up, grant, present, give, offer, make available, serve, confer, afford, purvey, bestow, endow, kit out,
Opposite: divest,
Origin: late Middle English (in the general sense ‘provide or equip with what is necessary or desirable’): from Old French furniss-, lengthened stem of furnir, ultimately of West Germanic origin.


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