furnish
/ˈfɝnɪʃ/ verb B1- To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
- To supply or give (something).
- To supply (somebody) with something. · The street outside my window furnishes meager entertainment.
He/she/it furnishes · Past furnished · Past participle furnished · -ing form furnishing
Verb forms
- Base form
- furnish
- He/she/it
- furnishes
- Past
- furnished
- Past participle
- furnished
- -ing form
- furnishing
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He was, if I recollect, arrested in a tavern, in company with a great many others.” Then he added, “Monsieur, you may rest assured I shall perform my duty impartially, and that if he be innocent you shall not have appealed to me in vain; should he, however, be guilty, in this present epoch, impunity would furnish a dangerous example, and I must do my duty.”
The Eagle gave one look at the arrow that had entered his heart and saw in that single glance that its feathers had been furnished by himself.
As they went along they chanced to pass a deep well, amply supplied with water, and when they saw it, one of the Frogs said to the other, “Let us descend and make our abode in this well: it will furnish us with shelter and food.” The other replied with greater caution, “But suppose the water should fail us.
This gloomy fortress, which has for more than three hundred years furnished food for so many wild legends, seemed to Dantès like a scaffold to a malefactor.
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