furnish

v.

1. To supply necessities

   supply, provide, outfit, fit out, equip, stock, appoint, arm; see also provide 1.

2. To equip with furniture

   appoint, decorate, fit, make habitable, do interior decorating.

furnish implies the provision of all the things requisite for a particular service, action, etc. to furnish a house; to equip is to furnish with what is requisite for efficient action a car equipped with overdrive; to outfit is to equip completely with the articles needed for a specific undertaking, occupation, etc. to outfit a hunting expedition; appoint, a formal word now generally used in the past participle, implies the provision of all the requisites and accessories for proper service a well-appointed studio; arm literally implies equipping with weapons and materiel for war but, in extended use, connotes provision with what is necessary to meet any circumstance armed with enough evidence to convict the defendant