Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To unfurnish; strip of furniture, ornaments, or apparatus: as, to degarnish a house.
  • To deprive of a garrison or troops necessary for defense: as, to degarnish a city or fort.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb rare To strip or deprive of entirely, as of furniture, ornaments, etc.; to disgarnish
  • transitive verb rare To deprive of a garrison, or of troops necessary for defense.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To strip or deprive of entirely, as of furniture, ornaments, etc.; to disgarnish.
  • verb To deprive of a garrison, or of troops necessary for defence.

Etymologies

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French dégarnir. See garnish, and compare disgarnish.

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