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furnisht

furnisht is the obsolete form of furnished.

furnisht is the simple past and past participle of furnish.

Meaning of furnished

Adjective

furnished (not comparable)

  1. equipped with whatever is needed
    Synonyms:
    well-found
  2. supplied with furniture
    • Shabby indeed, and small and poorly furnished, and yet his, the home he had made for himself, the home he had been so happy to get back to after his day's work.1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC

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 furnisht

What is furnisht the obsolete form of?
Furnisht is the obsolete form of furnished.

Words near furnisht in the dictionary

  1. furnishing and supplying
  2. furnishing out
  3. furnishings
  4. furnishment
  5. furnishments
  6. furnisht
  7. Furniss
  8. furniture
  9. furniture beetle
  10. furniture beetles
  11. furniture music

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Adapted from Wiktionary: furnisht (page history and authors); furnished (page history and authors); furnish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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