furnish
Other forms: furnished; furnishing; furnishes
If you provide something needed, you furnish it. You can furnish an answer to a question in an interview, furnish the snacks at a party, or furnish a room by filling it with couches and chairs.
Just as furniture fills a room or a building, to furnish is to fill a need. Another word for furnish is "provide." A furnace furnishes heat (try saying that ten times fast). A job furnishes you with an income. Your parents furnish you with a place to live, furniture included.
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provide or equip with furniture
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give something useful or necessary totypes:hydratesupply water or liquid to in order to maintain a healthy balancechargeenergize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to dischargedateprovide with a dateline; mark with a datefeedfeed into; supplycalkprovide with calksfundprovide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interestdadoprovide with a dadoinnervatesupply nerves to (some organ or body part)offermake available or accessible, provide or furnishstockprovide or furnish with a stock of somethingbuy in, stock, stock upamass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or usecaptionprovide with a caption, as of a photograph or a drawingtubeprovide with a tube or insert a tube intoticketprovide with a ticket for passage or admissionstocksupply with livestockstocksupply with fishrimfurnish with a rimfretprovide (a musical instrument) with fretsstepfurnish with stepsrailprovide with railsgratefurnish with a gratecapitalise, capitalizesupply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenderswharfprovide with a wharfuniformprovide with uniformsrailroadsupply with railroad linespartnerprovide with a partnersubtitlesupply (a movie) with subtitlesheadlineprovide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headlinematchprovide funds complementary tohobnailsupply with hobnailswiveprovide with a wife; marry (someone) to a wifevictualsupply with foodheatprovide with heatseatprovide with seatsseatput a seat on a chairrampfurnish with a ramparmsupply with armsinterleaveprovide (books) with blank leavescausewayprovide with a causewaybushprovide with a bushingbratticesupply with a brattice, to ventilate minesslatequip or bar with slatsberthprovide with a berthbedfurnish with a bedcostumefurnish with costumes; as for a film or playbottomprovide with a bottom or a seatrafterprovide (a ceiling) with rafterstoolfurnish with toolskeyprovide with a keyfuelprovide with a combustible substance that provides energyupholsterprovide furniture with padding, springs, webbing, and coverscleatprovide with cleatscoalsupply with coalcorbelfurnish with a corbelcornicefurnish with a corniceconstitutionalizeprovide with a constitution, as of a countrycopper-bottomprovide with a copper bottomcurtainprovide with draperygatesupply with a gateindexprovide with an indexpoursupply in large amounts or quantitiespumpsupply in great quantitiestoggleprovide with a toggle or togglespatchprovide with a patch; also used metaphoricallywaterprovide with waterleverageprovide with leveragetapfurnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from itretrofitprovide with parts, devices, or equipment not available or in use at the time of the original manufacturemachicolatesupply with projecting galleriessanitateprovide with sanitary facilities or applianceshatfurnish with a hatthemeprovide with a particular theme or motivekernfurnish with a kernheadquarterprovide with headquartersshelterprovide shelter forrechargecharge anewfuseequip with a fuse; provide with a fusecollarfurnish with a collarspurequip with spursfinequip (a car) with finsmotorizeequip with a motormotorizeequip with a motor vehicleplantplace into a riverrestockstock againoverstockstock excessivelyunderstockstock with less than the usual or desirable number or quantitystockequip with a stocksteam-heatheat by means of steamreseatprovide with new seatsreseatprovide with a new seatmunitionsupply with weaponsrearmarm againdouble-glazeprovide with two sheets of glassrefurnishfurnish with new or different furniturebunkprovide with a bunkgas upfill with gasolinerefuelprovide with additional fuel, as of aircraft, ships, and carsbunkerfill (a ship's bunker) with coal or oilhorseshoeequip (a horse) with a horseshoe or horseshoesturn outoutfit or equip, as with accessoriesinstrumentequip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controllingmuzzlefit with a muzzleappointfurnishrefitfit out againwireprovide with electrical circuitsshaftequip with a shaftsparfurnish with sparsstavefurnish with staveskennelput up in a kennelstableshelter in a stablestallput into, or keep in, a stallcommissionput into commission; equip for service; of shipstype of:givetransfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody
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