MEANING
1. Provide someone with information, resources, or other required things.
2. Put furniture and related fittings into a room or building.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- furnish evidence
- furnish details
On the page
The archive furnished evidence of an earlier agreement.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- furnish
- Past tense
- furnished
- Past participle
- furnished
- Present participle
- furnishing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- furnish
- Present continuous
- am/is/are furnishing
- Present perfect
- have/has furnished
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been furnishing
- Past
- furnished
- Past continuous
- was/were furnishing
- Past perfect
- had furnished
- Past perfect continuous
- had been furnishing
- Future
- will furnish
- Future continuous
- will be furnishing
- Future perfect
- will have furnished
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been furnishing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: furnish; furnishes; furnished; furnished; furnishing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation, evaluation. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: furnishes.
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