Definitions

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of disfurnish.
  • adjective Deprived of furniture, accoutrements or belongings; stripped, destitute.

Etymologies

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From disfurnish +‎ -ed.

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Examples

  • No, but What I am saying is, as stated above, this is what I wanted, this is what I enjoy, I never disfurnished my family for any purchase of gun, or gun related object, and my safe and loading room are stuffed full.

    Investing in Rifles 2008

  • But not all his skill and labour, in disposing to advantage the little furniture which remained, could remove the dark and disconsolate appearance of those ancient and disfurnished walls.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • Life will now become a flat, prosaic routine of matter-of-fact; and sleep itself, erst so prolific of numerical configurations and mysterious stimulants to lottery-adventure, will be disfurnished of its figures and figments.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various

  • In another room are two carved doors from a house in Hoorn that had been disfurnished which give one a very vivid idea of the old good taste of this people and the little palaces of grave art in which they lived.

    A Wanderer in Holland 1903

  • It is a well-known story of King John, that he confined a wealthy Jew in one of the royal castles, and daily caused one of his teeth to be torn out, until, when the jaw of the unhappy Israelite was half disfurnished, he consented to pay a large sum, which it was the tyrant's object to extort from him.

    Ivanhoe 1892

  • King be apparelled of white rich stuffs that he found, and a robe of cloth of silk and gold, and he clad himself in the like manner, neither was the chest not a whit disfurnished thereby, for the tent was all garnished of rich adornments.

    The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869

  • I found the doors of it open, but I saw everything disfurnished, everything disarranged, and your little daughter, who reminded me of mine.

    A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 1830

  • Rightly interpreting what seemed darkest and most obscure in the reply, they took "stones of the earth," and, casting them behind them, the stones flung by Deucalion became men, and those by Pyrrha became women, and thus the disfurnished world was peopled anew.

    The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829

  • It is a well-known story of King John, that he confined a wealthy Jew in one of the royal castles, and daily caused one of his teeth to be torn out, until, when the jaw of the unhappy Israelite was half disfurnished, he consented to pay a large sum, which it was the tyrant's object to extort from him.

    Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819

  • But not all his skill and labour, in disposing to advantage the little furniture which remained, could remove the dark and disconsolate appearance of those ancient and disfurnished walls.

    The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 1801

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