furnish

Plural: furnishes

Verb

Verb Forms: furnished, furnishing, furnishes

To provide or equip with what is needed.
give something useful or necessary to
provide or equip with furniture
- "We furnished the house in the Biedermeyer style"
To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
To supply or give (something).
To supply (somebody) with something.

Noun

Material used to create an engineered product.

Examples

He needed a ’U’ to furnish his rack with a seven-letter word, but it never appeared.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English furnysshen, from Old French furniss-, stem of certain parts of furnir, fornir (Modern French fournir), from Germanic, from Frankish *frumjan (“to complete, execute”), from Proto-Germanic *frumjaną (“to further, promote”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“front, forward”).
Cognate with Old High German frumjan (“to perform, provide”), Old High German fruma (“utility, gain”), Old English fremu (“profit, advantage”), Old English fremian (“to promote, perform”). More at frame, frim.

Synonyms

provide, render, supply

Scrabble Score: 13

furnish: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
furnish: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
furnish: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

furnish: valid Words With Friends Word