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The definition of furnish is to provide or to fill a home with furniture.

(verb)

When you provide someone with information, this is an example of a situation where you furnish information.
When you fill a house with couches and chairs and beds and other items necessary to live comfortably, this is an example of a situation where you furnish the house.

See furnish in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb

to supply, provide, or equip with whatever is necessary or useful; esp., to put furniture into (a room, apartment, etc.)
to supply; provide; give: to furnish information

Origin: ME furnishen < extended stem of OFr furnir (Fr fournir) < Frank *frumjan (akin to OE framian, Ger frommen, to benefit), caus. < *fruma (akin to ON frami, profit): for IE base see from

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furnisher noun

See furnish in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb fur·nished, fur·nish·ing, fur·nish·es

To equip with what is needed, especially to provide furniture for.
To supply; give: “The story of Orpheus has furnished Pope with an illustration” (Thomas Bulfinch).

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Origin: Middle English furnisshen

Origin: , from Old French fournir, fourniss-

Origin: , of Germanic origin; see per¹ in Indo-European roots

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