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furnish'd

furnish'd is the simple past and past participle of furnish.

Meaning of furnish

Verb

furnish (third-person singular simple present furnishes, present participle furnishing, simple past and past participle furnished)

  1. (transitive) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
    • The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious...1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 58
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To supply or give (something).
    • […] Miniſters are ſo wiſe to leave their Proceedings to be accounted for by Reaſoners at a Diſtance, who often mould them into Syſtems, that do not only go down very well in the Coffee-Houſe, but are Supplies for Pamphlets in the preſent Age, and may probably furniſh Materials for Memoirs and...1714 (date written), [Jonathan Swift], Some Free Thoughts upon the Present State of Affairs. […], Dublin; London: […] T. Cooper, […], published 1741, →OCLC, page 3
  3. (figuratively, transitive) To supply (somebody) with something.
    • The street outside my window furnishes meager entertainment.

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Questions about furnish'd

What is furnish'd the simple past and past participle of?
Furnish'd is the simple past and past participle of furnish.

Words near furnish'd in the dictionary

  1. furniments
  2. furnis
  3. furnish
  4. furnish and supply
  5. furnish out
  6. furnish'd
  7. furnishable
  8. furnished
  9. furnished and supplied
  10. furnished out
  11. furnisher

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