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disfurnish

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[dis-fur-nish] / dɪsˈfɜr nɪʃ /

verb (used with object)

  1. to deprive of something with which a person or thing is furnished; divest of possessions; strip.


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Etymology

Origin of disfurnish

1525–35; < Middle French desfourniss-, stem of desfournir, equivalent to des- dis- 1 + fournir to furnish


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What a wicked Beast was I to disfurnish my self against such a good time, when I might ha shewn my selfe Honourable?

From Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare

To disfurnish or disconfit means to incommode: “I hope it has not disconfit you very bad.”

From Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart

O, sir, you are to forward; thou woulst faine furnish me with a halter, to disfurnish me of my habit.

From The Spanish Tragedie by Thomas Kyd

But I shall disfurnish you, Sir Amorous, can you spare it?

From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by J. J. Jusserand

O, sir, you are to forward; thou wouldst fain furnish me with a halter, to disfurnish me of my habit.

From The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd

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