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Another word for furnish

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Verb

  1. To supply what is needed for some activity or purpose

    See also:

    give

  2. To relinquish to the possession or control of another

    See also:

    give

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Another word for furnish

Verb

  1. To supply necessities

    See also:

    provide

  2. To equip with furniture

Synonym Study

  • Arm literally implies equipping with weapons and materiel for war but, in extended use, connotes provision with what is necessary to meet any circumstance armed with enough evidence to convict the defendant
  • Appoint , a formal word now generally used in the past participle, implies the provision of all the requisites and accessories for proper service a well-appointed studio
  • To outfit is to equip completely with the articles needed for a specific undertaking, occupation, etc. to outfit a hunting expedition
  • To equip is to furnish with what is requisite for efficient action a car equipped with overdrive
  • Furnish implies the provision of all the things requisite for a particular service, action, etc. to furnish a house
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Sentence Examples

  • The marriage registers furnish another test of education.

  • The blastostyles, gonophores and gonothecae furnish a series of variations which can best be considered as so many stages of evolution.

  • There is actually no place in this village for a work of fine art, if any had come down to us, to stand, for our lives, our houses and streets, furnish no proper pedestal for it.

  • It is well stocked with trout, and the steep declivities of the lower valley furnish red wines of excellent quality.

  • Their only obligation to the Turkish government is to furnish a contingent in time of war; the only law they recognize is either traditional custom(adet) or the unwritten Kanun-i Leks Dukajinit, a civil and criminal code, so called from its author, Leka Dukajini, who is supposed to have lived in the 13th or 14th century.

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