Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive or divest of furnishment; strip of or cause to be without adjuncts or belongings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest.
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- verb transitive To deprive of that with which anything is
furnished (furniture ,equipment , etc.); tostrip ordivest .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Her closet, her chamber, her cabinet, given up to me to disfurnish, in order to answer (now too late obliging!) the legacies bequeathed; unable themselves to enter them; and even making use of less convenient back stairs, that they may avoid passing by the doors of her apartment!
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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When Goneril turns against him, insisting that he disfurnish himself of most of his retinue of followers, Lear pins his hopes on Regan.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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What a wicked beast was I to disfurnish myself against such a good time, when I might ha shown myself honourable! how unluckily it happened, that I should purchase the day before for a little part, and undo a great deal of honour!
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Faith, I must ravish her, or shell disfurnish us of all our cavaliers, and make all our swearers priests.
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As has been said, he loved better to disfurnish the outside of other people's heads than to furnish the inside of his own.
History of the United States, Volume 1 (of 6) Elisha Benjamin Andrews 1880
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Faith I must rauish her, or shee'le disfurnish vs of all our Caualereea, and make our swearers priests.
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What a wicked beast was I to disfurnish myself against such a good time, when I might ha 'shown myself honourable! how unluckily it happened, that I should purchase the day before for a little part, and undo a great deal of honoured!
Timon of Athens 1607
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'Faith, I must ravish her, or she'll disfurnish us of all our cavaliers, and make our swearers priests.
Pericles 1607
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O, sir, you are to forward; thou woulst faine furnish me with a halter, to disfurnish me of my habit.
The Spanish Tragedie Thomas Kyd 1576
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Commanders in Lisbon; and by these few aduentures discouered how easily her maiestie may without any great aduenture in short time pull the Tirant of the world vpon his knees, as wel by the disquieting his vsurpation of Portugall as without difficultie in keeping the commoditie of his Indies from him, by sending an army so accomplished, as may not be subiect to those extremities which we haue endured: except he draw, for those defences, his forces out of the Low countries and disfurnish his garisons of Naples and
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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