Furnish

Definition: Furnish

Furnish

Verb

1. Provide or furnish with; "We provided the room with an electrical heater"; "render assistence".

2. Provide or equip with furniture: "We furnished the house in the Biedermeyer style".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "furnish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Industry

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Furnish

Aid

Verb: aid, assist, help, succor, lend one's aid; come to the aid; n. of; contribute, subscribe to; bring aid, give aid, furnish aid, afford aid, supply aid; Noun: give a helping hand, stretch a hand, lend a helping hand, lend a hand, bear a helping hand, hold out a hand, hold out a helping hand; give one a life, give one a cast, give one a turn; take by the hand, take in tow;help a lame dog over a stile, lend wings to.

Dissuasion

Verb: pretend, plead, allege; shelter oneself under the plea of; excuse; (vindicate); lend a color to; furnish a handle; Noun: make a pretext of, make a handle of; use as a plea; Noun: take one's stand upon, make capital out of, pretend; (lie).

Giving

Make a present; allow, contribute, subscribe, furnish its quota.

Furnish, supply, help; administer to; afford, spare; accommodate with, indulge with, favor with; shower down upon; lavish, pour on, thrust upon.

Preparation

Elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture; (aid); hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue; infumate; maturate. equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust; (fit); put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack.

Provision

Supply, suppeditate; furnish; find, find one in; arm.

Support

Give support, furnish support, afford support, supply support, lend support, give foundations, furnish foundations, afford foundations, supply foundations, lend foundations; bottom, found, base, ground, imbed, embed.

Vindication

Verb: justify, warrant; be an excuse; n.for; lend a color, furnish a handle; vindicate; exculpate, disculpate; acquit; clear, set right, exonerate, whitewash; clear the skirts of.

Crosswords: Furnish

Manx (furnace).

I'm sure he'll be able to furnish you with something suitably dull. (Topsy-Turvy; writing credit: Mike Leigh)

Hey, I went shopping, Buster, to furnish your perfect house, to build your perfect image, to be your perfect Beverly Hills wife! (Troop Beverly Hills; writing credit: Pamela Norris)

He'll furnish it double (THAT'S KILLER JOE; performing artist: Manhattan Transfer)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Books Do Furnish a Room (reference)

• How to Build and Furnish a Log Cabin (reference)

• How to furnish old American houses (reference)

• Log Cabins and Cottages: How to Build and Furnish Them (reference)

• Make and Furnish Your Own Miniature Rooms (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Prairie grasses and woodland plantings furnish wildlife habitat in Shelby County, Iowa. Credit: Tim McCabe.

Landless family of cotton sharecroppers, Macon County, Georgia. For their labor they receive half the crop they produce, and the equivalent of ten dollars a month "furnish" (credit) from the landlord. Their vegetable garden failed this year for lack of ra. Credit: Library of Congress.

House in Midland, Texas, with its individual windmill to furnish water for yard, garden, and flowers. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sharecropper. Receives five dollars a month "furnish" from the landowner. Macon County, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pine cones which furnish seed for planting in nursery. Withlacoochee Land Use Project, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.

Palermo, Sicily. Some of the girls who helped furnish the entertainment at the concert given by the symphony orchestra for the Allied soldiers. Credit: Library of Congress.

Automobile batteries furnish power storage for thirty-two volt wind charger. Savoy Mountains, Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress.

Local signboard of Birmingham, Alabama: "Did you know? McDonald Furniture Company can furnish your home....". Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Bread, wine and cloth, are things of daily use, and great plenty; yet notwithstanding, acorns, water and leaves, or skins, must be our bread, drink and cloathing, did not labour furnish us with these more useful commodities: for whatever bread is more worth than acorns, wine than water, and cloth or silk, than leaves, skins or moss, that is wholly owing to labour and industry; the one of these being the food and raiment which unassisted nature furnishes us with; the other, provisions which our industry and pains prepare for us, which how much they exceed the other in value, when any one hath computed, he will then see how much labour makes the far greatest part of the value of things we enjoy in this world: and the ground which produces the materials, is scarce to be reckoned in, as any, or at most, but a very small part of it; so little, that even amongst us, land that is left wholly to nature, that hath no improvement of pasturage, tillage, or planting, is called, as indeed it is, waste; and we shall find the benefit of it amount to little more than nothing. (Second Treatise of Government)

But the peculiar expressions of the constitution of the United States furnish additional arguments in favour of its rejection. (reference)

The Commission shall give representatives of the German Government an opportunity and a time to be heard as to their capacity to furnish the said materials, articles and animals. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He had paid her for six months in advance, and engaged the old dame to furnish the chamber and the little bedroom, as we have described them.

He said that must needs be a miserable country which cannot furnish food for its own inhabitants.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Atherosclerosis narrows the channels of the coronary arteries, the vessels that furnish the major blood supply to the heart muscle. (references)

Business

With this system, obstacles on the road are caught before actually being seen, even in fog. Foreign suppliers able to furnish full lighting kits will stand great sales chances. (references)

Economic History

China

Major non-food crops, including cotton, other fibers, and oil seeds, furnish China with a large proportion of its foreign trade revenue. (references)

India

They must finesse to assure success on both these fronts; must be prepared to furnish substantial information; and patiently refute misleading allegations. (references)

Ethiopia

In 1953, two agreements were signed: a mutual defense assistance agreement, under which the U.S. agreed to furnish military equipment and training, and an accord regularizing the operations of a U.S. communication facility at Asmara. (references)

Human Rights

Croatia

In some cases, the Government failed to furnish reconstructed houses with basic utilities, discouraging returns. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

In November 1999, the president of the bar announced that the bar would not continue to provide free legal assistance to poor accused persons who are tried by a civil or criminal court if the Government did not furnish lawyers' transportation and lodging expenses. (references)

Mexico

The law calls for translation services to be available at all stages of the criminal process; however, the courts do not routinely furnish translators for indigenous defendants at all stages of criminal proceedings, and thus defendants may be unaware of the status of their cases. (references)

Trade

India

Import/Export Documentation: Importers are required to furnish an import declaration in the prescribed bill of entry format, disclosing full details of the value of imported goods. (references)

Travel

Burma

Burmese authorities require that hotels and guest houses furnish information about the identities and activities of their foreign guests. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "furnish": furnish a certain quantity of ♦ furnish charging information ♦ furnish evidence of ♦ furnish its quota ♦ furnish one's house ♦ furnish the living room ♦ furnish with ♦ furnish with credentials ♦ furnish with tape. Additional references.

Ending with "furnish": new-furnish.

Afrikaans

lewer (deliver, liver, supply), inlewer (convey, deliver, hand, hand over, pass, supply), aflewer (deliver, supply). (various references)

Albanian

furnizoj (deliver, equip, equip with, feed, fit out, lay on, outfit, provide with, purvey, supply, victual), siguroj (acquire, assure, avouch, bear, certify, come by, cover, ensure, find, fit out, guy, haven, house, indemnify, insure, keep, lock up, obtain, procure, provide, purvey, reassure, satisfy, secure, supply, take care of, underwrite, vouch, warrant, win), pajis (accoutre, arm oneself, endow, endue, equip, fit, fit out, fit up, fix up, habilitate, indue, outfit, rig out, set, store, supply), nozulloj (supply), mobiloj, jap (accord, adjudge, administer, afford, allow, assign, award, bear, bestow, come through, concede, deliver, dish, dispense, get through, give, give in, hand in, impart, land, lend, pay, present, produce, provide, reach, throw, vouchsafe, yield). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مد (add to, dilate, distend, draw out, elongate, equip with, expand, extend, extension, help, lengthen, lengthening, outspread, outstretch, prolong, prolongate, prolongation, protract, protraction, provide, respite, spread, stretch, supply with), ‏زود (accommodate, assort, button, cap, chock, cover, eke out, equip, fit, fit out, gloss, irrigate, lend, outfit, provide, purvey, rig out, serve, set up, store, supply, tool up), ‏جهز (accommodate, activate, appoint, device, equip, equip with, fit, fit out, gear, get ready, outfit, pack up, prepare, provide, set off, set smb. up in smth., stand by, think out), ‏أثث. (various references)

Bulgarian 

снабдявам (accommodate, arm, cater, feed, find, fit out, fit up, fuel, issue, outfit, provide, purvey, rig out, set up, stock, suit, supply), оборудвам (equip, stock), обзавеждам (equip, outfit, provide), мебелирам, доставям (accommodate, afford, get, give, haul, heel, provide, purvey, rustle up, supply). (various references)

Chinese 

装备 (Equip, Equipped, Equipping, furnished, Furnishing, materiel, outfitted, outfitting), 供給 (provide, supply). (various references)

Czech

zařídit (arrange, equip, fit out, fix, fix up, get up, manage, organize, see to, settle, wangle), vybavit (accommodate, endow, equip, fit, fit out, fit up, habilitate, refit), poskytnout (administer, afford, extend, give, grant, house, provide, render, supply, tender, volunteer), opatřit (fit out, get, obtain, procure, provide, purvey, raise, stock, store, supply, take out), dodat (add, deliver, impart, supply). (various references)

Danish

fiberstofrecept, kvalitetsrecept, aflevere (deliver, supply), affaldspapir (furnish of paper). (various references)

Dutch

leveren (deliver, supply), bestellen (book, deliver, order, reserve, supply, to order), afleveren (deliver, supply). (various references)

Esperanto

mebli, liveri (deliver, supply). (various references)

Faeroese

flýggja (deliver, flee, run away, supply), lata (allow, cause, dedicate, deliver, devote, entrust, get, leave, let, make, release, supply, tell), greiða (account for, analyse, clarify, comb, curl, define, deliver, determine, do, explain, supply). (various references)

Farsi 

مزین کردن (Beset, Dress, Emboss), مجهزکردن (Dight, Equip, Imp, Prepare), مبله کردن , تهیه کردن (Administer, Afford, Cater, Get, Process, Purvey, Supply), دارای اثاثه کردن . (various references)

Finnish

seossuhde. (various references)

French

meubler, fournissent, fournir. (various references)

Frisian

leverje (deliver, supply). (various references)

German

möblieren, liefern (deliver, give, provide, purvey, supply, to deliver, to deliver (from), to furnish, to provide, to supply, yield), ausstatten (accommodate, configurate, endow, equip, fit, fit up, kit out, kit up, produce, provide, stock, supply, to configurate, to equip, to fit out, to furnish, vest). (various references)

Greek 

προμηθεύω (cater, fuel, procure, provide, provide for, purvey, stock, supply), επιπλώνω. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"מציא (contrive, devise, excogitate, invent, make up, originate, present, provide, submit, think up), לר�"ט, לצי�" (arm, equip, fit out, fit up, outfit, provide, set up, stock, supply), לספק (give, please, provide, purvey, satisfy, supply). (various references)

Hungarian

berendez (equip, instal, install, to equip, to furnish, to refit, to upholster, upholster), bebútoroz (to furnish). (various references)

Indonesian

melengkapi (adjust, complementary, endue, equip). (various references)

Italian

fornire (adduce, afford, cater, contribute, deal, deliver, endow, equip, give, outfit, present, produce, proffer, provide, put up, stock, stock up, store, supply, to deliver, to provide, yield). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

備える (to equip, to furnish, to have ready, to install, to provide for). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そなえつける (to equip, to furnish, to install, to provide), そなえる (to be armed with, to be endowed with, to be furnished with, to dedicate, to equip, to furnish, to have, to have ready, to install, to offer, to possess, to prepare for, to provide for, to sacrifice), しき�"�'� す (to furnish with funds), つける (to add, to affix, to append, to apply, to appraise, to attach, to bring alongside, to dip in, to establish, to fasten, to follow, to furnish, to give, to glue, to join, to keep, to keep a diary, to light up, to load, to make an entry, to moisten, to pickle, to place, to put, to put on, to set, to sew on, to shadow, to soak, to stick, to switch on, to turn on, to wear), とりつける (to furnish, to get someone's agreement, to install). (various references)

Korean 

비치하십시�". (various references)

Manx

soiaghey magh (bed out, disposition, profess, represent, set forth), greighey (equip, furnishing, rig), cur cooid-hie ayn. (various references)

Norwegian

levere (deliver, hand, supply). (various references)

Papiamen

entregá (deliver, supply). (various references)

Pig Latin

urnishfay

Portuguese

mobiliar (fit up), fornecer (accommodate, cater, deliver, give, provide, purvey, serve, store, to supply, yield). (various references)

Romanian

mobila, asorta (assort, blend, sort, stock, suit), aproviziona (provide, provide for, provision, recruit, stock, store, supply), aduce (accompany, adduce, afford, bear, bring, bring in, cause, collect, convey, drive, fetch, gather, get, lead, produce, secure, supply, take, transport, yield). (various references)

Russian 

снабжать (accommodate, equip, fit, fit out, fit up, provide, serve with, store, supply). (various references)

Scottish

liubhair (deliver, give to, supply, surrender). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

snabdeti (cater, equip, feed, gird, heel, provide, purvey, ration, stock, stock up, supply), namestiti (fix, focus, lay, place, pose, posit, reduce, rig, set right, tune in). (various references)

Spanish

amueblar (appoint). (various references)

Swedish

möblera, inreda (arrange, fit up, fix up, install, put in order, tidy), förse (endue, feed, fit, invest, issue, kit out, kit up, provide, serve, supplie, supply, vest). (various references)

Thai

ตกแต่ง (dress). (various references)

Turkish

vermek (accord, adduce, adjudge, administer, allow, assign, award, bear, bestow, bring, bring in, cede, charter, come across with, confer, contribute, dedicate, deliver, deliver up, dispose of, distribute, donate, endow, extend, give, give away, give in, grant, hand, hand in, hand out, hand over, impart, inflict, inoculate, insert, instate, lend, let, let out, offer, pass, pass in, place, present, produce, put up, reach, render, serve, tender, throw, yield), sunmak (bring in, confer, dish, dish up, emcee, exhibit, go over, go through, help smb. to smth., hold forth, initiate, introduce, lay, Lodge, offer, pass in, pitch, prefer, present, proffer, put forward, put in, put to, put up, render, report, represent, serve up, shew, submit, table, tender), sağlamak (accommodate, accommodate smb. with, arm, assure, carry, cater, cater for, come in, derive, enlist, ensure, extract, fend for, find, fix, fix up, get out of, implement, keep, lay in, lay on, maintain, make, obtain, procure, provide, provide with, provision, purvey, secure, suck, supply, yield), mobilya döşemek, donatmak (arm, attire, bedeck, bedight, catch up, damask, deck out, decorate, equip, gird, invest, ornament, outfit, prank, prank out, prank up, rig, rig out, turn out), döşemek (appoint, floor, inlay, lay down, spread, upholster, veneer). (various references)

Ukrainian

меблювати (appoint), забезпечувати (assure, document, ensure, feed, fit out, fix out, nourish, provide), постачати (accommodate, administer, administrate, assort, feed, fit up, fix out, nourish, provide, set up, stock, store, supply). (various references)

Welsh

dodrefnu. (various references)

Zulu

-diliva (deliver, supply). (various references)

adorno, apta, aptari, aptas, aptasti, aptata, aptaverunt, aptavit, aptet, conpleam, conpleamus, conpleas, conpleat, conpleatur, conplebant, conplebantur, conplebis, conplebit, conplebitur, conplebo, conplebunt, conplebuntur, conplens, conplent, conplentes, conplerentur, conpleret, conpleretur, conplessent, conplesset, conplesti, conpleta, conpletae, conpletam, conplete, conpleti, conpletis, conpletum, conpleturus, conpletus, conpleverat, conpleverint, conpleveris, conpleverit, conplevero, conpleverunt, conplevit, conplevitque, do, do dare dedi datum, exhibeamus, exhibeatis, exhibentem, exhibere, exhiberet, exhibete, exhibetis, exhibuistis, ministrabant, ministrabat, ministrabit, ministrabitis, ministrabitur, ministrabunt, ministrando, ministrandum, ministrans, ministrant, ministrantes, ministrantia, ministrantibus, ministrantium, ministrare, ministrarent, ministraret, ministraretis, ministraretur, ministrari, ministrasti, ministrat, ministrata, ministrate, ministratio, ministrationem, ministrationum, ministratur, ministraverint, ministraverit, ministraverunt, ministravimus, ministravit, ministrent, ministret, ministretis, ministro, mobile, orna, ornabant, ornabatur, ornaberis, ornabit, ornanda, ornandam, ornandum, ornant, ornantes, ornare, ornaret, ornasti, ornat, ornata, ornatam, ornati, ornatis, ornato, ornatu, ornatum, ornaturum, ornatus, ornaverunt, ornavi, ornavit, ornent, orno, stella, stellas, subministrabunt, subministratum, subministravit, subministret, suggeras, suggerente, suggerentibus, suggereret, suggeret, suggesserant, suggessimus, vallabat, vallabit, vallabitis, vallasti, vallata, vallatae, vallatus, vallaverunt, vallavit, vallem, valles, vallo. (various references)

estorer. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "furnish": furnished, furnisher, furnishers, furnishes, furnishing, furnishings. (additional references)

Words ending with "furnish": disfurnish, refurnish. (additional references)

Words containing "furnish": disfurnished, disfurnishes, disfurnishing, disfurnishment, disfurnishments, refurnished, refurnishes, refurnishing, unfurnished. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Furnish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: duirnish, fawnish, ffurnish, firnish, fonish, Fornethy, fournish, frynych, furish, Furnes, furni, furnich, furnis, furniss, gurnish, Urnasch. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: inrush.

-2 letters: firns, ruins.

-3 letters: fins, firn, firs, fish, funs, furs, hins, hisn, huns, rhus, rifs, rins, ruin, runs, rush, shin, shri, shun, sinh, surf, urns.

-4 letters: fin, fir, fun, fur, hin, his, hun, ifs, ins, nus, rif, rin, run, sin, sir, sri, sun, uns, urn.

-5 letters: hi, if, in, is, nu, sh, si, uh.

+2 letters: furnished, furnisher, furnishes, refurnish, trunkfish.

+3 letters: disfurnish, furbishing, furnishers, furnishing, groundfish.

+4 letters: flourishing, furnishings, gunfighters, infrahumans, refurnished, refurnishes, reshuffling, surgeonfish, trunkfishes, unfurnished.

+5 letters: disfurnished, disfurnishes, groundfishes, mirthfulness, refurbishing, refurnishing, rightfulness, undersheriff.

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