Synonyms for furnish
ˈfɜr nɪʃfur·nish

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1. furnish

   To give is primarily to transfer to another's possession or ownership without compensation; in its secondary sense in popular use, it is to put into another's possession by any means and on any terms whatever; a buyer may say "Give me the goods, and I will give you the money;" we speak of giving answers, information, etc., and often of giving what is not agreeable to the recipient, as blows, medicine, reproof; but when there is nothing in the context to indicate the contrary, give is always understood in its primary sense; as, this book was given me. Give thus becomes, like get, a term of such general import as to be a synonym for a wide variety of words. To grant is to put into one's possession in some formal way, or by authoritative act; as, Congress grants lands to a railroad corporation. To speak of granting a favor carries a claim or concession of superiority on the part of the one by whom the grant may be made; to confer has a similar sense; as, to confer a degree or an honor; we grant a request or petition, but do not confer it. To impart is to give of that which one still, to a greater or less degree, retains; the teacher imparts instruction. To bestow is to give that of which the receiver stands in especial need; we bestow alms.

   Synonyms:
   bestow, cede, communicate, confer, deliver, give, grant, impart, supply

   Preposition:
   We give money to a person for a thing, for a purpose, etc. (or without proposition, give a person a sum of money); we give a thing to or into one's care or keeping; the weary fugitive gave himself up to his pursuers.

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1. furnish

   Synonyms:
   supply, provide, equip, afford, yield, bestow, purvey, give

   Antonyms:
   withhold, withdraw, dismantle

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1. supply, provide, render, furnishverb

   give something useful or necessary to

   "We provided the room with an electrical heater"

   Synonyms:
   provide, put up, yield, deliver, picture, supply, append, show, hand over, add, turn in, interpret, translate, fork up, submit, fork out, give, offer, fork over, depict, generate, return, ply, bring home the bacon, try, leave, allow, render, issue, allow for, cater

2. furnishverb

   provide or equip with furniture

   "We furnished the house in the Biedermeyer style"

   Synonyms:
   render, provide, supply

Matched Categories

1. • Give
   • Provide

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1. furnishverb

   Synonyms:
   provide, supply, equip, fit out, fit up

2. furnishverb

   Synonyms:
   give, bestow, present, contribute, afford

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1. furnishverb

   Synonyms:
   supply, provide, contribute, bestow, purvey, cater

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1. List of paraphrases for "furnish":

   provide

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1. Warrick Dunn:

   $ 5,000 down payment and we fully furnish their homes with food, furniture, linens, garden tools, TVs, computers all the way down to the toothbrush, the more I learned, we wanted to get into the business of giving people the potential to break their cycle of poverty.

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude: Works and Days, 1870:

   A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

3. Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS:

   ...as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings...

4. Audrey Hepburn:

   It's sad if people think that's (homemaking) a dull existance, [but] you can't just buy an apartment and furnish it and walk away. It's the flowers you choose, the music you play, the smile you have waiting. I want it to be gay and cheerful, a haven in this troubled world. I don't want my husband and children to come home and find a rattled woman. Our era is already rattled enough, isn't it?

5. Thomas a Kempis:

   The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.