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FURNISHED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority)
Example:
a completely furnished toolbox
Synonyms:
equipped; furnished
Classified under:
Similar:
appointed (provided with furnishing and accessories (especially of a tasteful kind))
fitted out; outfitted (furnished with essential equipment for a particular occupation or undertaking occupation)
stocked; stocked with (furnished with more than enough)
volumed (furnished with volumes)
well-appointed; well-found (having a full array of suitable equipment or furnishings)
Domain category:
article of furniture; furniture; piece of furniture (furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy)
Antonym:
unfurnished (not equipped with what is needed especially furniture)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb furnish
Context examples:
Emma was soon perfectly satisfied of Mr. Martin's being no otherwise remembered, than as he furnished a contrast with Mr. Elton, of the utmost advantage to the latter.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
A few sticks of driftwood furnished them with a fire that thawed down through the ice and left them to eat supper in the dark.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
It was barely furnished with odd things, which seemed to have never been used; the furniture was something the same style as that in the south rooms, and was covered with dust.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I took and furnished that house in Soho, to which Hyde was tracked by the police; and engaged as a housekeeper a creature whom I knew well to be silent and unscrupulous.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He was possessed with a mania for patronizing Yankee ingenuity, and seeing his friends fitly furnished forth.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Furnished with or supported by documents and documentation.
(Documented, NCI Thesaurus)
Feet are cat-like, with arched toes and well furnished with hair.
(Gordon Setter, NCI Thesaurus)
The balcony was furnished with a chair or two; I sat down, and took out a cigar,—I will take one now, if you will excuse me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“I trust,” said the general, with a most satisfied smile, “that it will very speedily be furnished: it waits only for a lady's taste!”
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
On the other hand, it was furnished with the neatness and taste which belonged to his character, so that his most luxurious friends found something in the tiny rooms which made them discontented with their own sumptuous mansions.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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