a fully furnished flatfurnishfur‧nish /ˈfɜːnɪʃ $ ˈfɜːr-/ ●●○ verb [transitive] 
Having bought the house, they couldn’t afford to furnish it.furnish something with something a room furnished with a desk and swivel chair2 formal to supply or provide something: Will these finds furnish more information on prehistoric man?furnish somebody/something with something John was furnished with a list of local solicitors.—furnished adjective: The bedrooms are elegantly furnished. a fully furnished flat
WORD ORIGINfurnish
Origin:
1400-1500 Old French furnir ‘to complete, provide equipment’VERB TABLE
furnish
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | furnish |
| he, she, it | furnishes | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | furnished |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have furnished |
| he, she, it | has furnished | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had furnished |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will furnish |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have furnished |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am furnishing |
| he, she, it | is furnishing | |
| you, we, they | are furnishing | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was furnishing |
| you, we, they | were furnishing | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been furnishing |
| he, she, it | has been furnishing | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been furnishing |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be furnishing |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been furnishing |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Buyers of any gun must furnish two pieces of identification.
- Nina's room was plainly furnished with a bed and a desk.
- The house was furnished in the most beautiful taste.
- Adam helps him to the Hermitage, which he is surprised to find furnished as a den for Arthur.
- All rooms are comfortably furnished and have their own shower and loo.
- Bedrooms are simply furnished and have telephone.
- For every automobile we furnish an accident.
- It has three pretty bedrooms, decorated in well-chosen fabrics, and furnished with antiques and pine.
- The bedrooms are furnished in a traditional style and have air-conditioning.
- The contrast is great and can furnish some important understandings.
- They furnish experts to whatever part of the government needs it, including state and local governments.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a fully furnished flatCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The hotel is modern and comfortably furnished.
a fully furnished flat (=with or without furniture)· a luxurious two-bedroomed unfurnished apartment situated in the heart of town
The hotel is modern and comfortably furnished. (=a rented flat that does or does not have furniture)· She found a job and a furnished flat.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· All rooms are comfortably furnished and have their own shower and loo.· Bedrooms are comfortably furnished, and some of them have excellent views of the surrounding mountains.· All the studios and apartments sleep 2-4 people and are comfortably furnished with private bathroom facilities and a balcony with sea view.· Bedrooms are comfortably furnished, predominantly in wood, and have private bathrooms and balconies.· Bedrooms are comfortably furnished, those in the Alte Post a telephone, radio and easy chairs.· The hotel bedrooms are comfortably furnished and all have a telephone.· They are comfortably furnished and most have a hair dryer.· The rooms are very comfortably furnished with carpets and modern bathrooms and have telephones and music systems.
· The bungalow was fully furnished and equipped.· Although fully furnished it had an air of emptiness and desolation.
· Bedrooms are simply furnished with telephone and safety deposit box.· The bedrooms are simply furnished and have a large balcony and air-conditioning.· It is very simply furnished with pine used throughout.· The interior is furnished simply but very pleasantly in keeping with the old-world cottage ambience of the house.
· It was sparsely furnished, for Anne had only just come into her inheritance, but it was newly decorated and clean.· His office is a light, sparsely furnished room without a desk.· The room was sparsely furnished with an ancient sideboard, a small kitchen-dresser, a table and two chairs.· One room is a sparsely furnished office and showroom with eight caskets on display.· Bedrooms are sparsely furnished and the dining rooms look drab.· She put her fists into her lap and crouched in her chair, the way people die in sparsely furnished rooms.· It was sparsely furnished and grimy.· His head was slumped against a leather strap chained to the headboard of the king-size bed in the sparsely furnished living room.
· Rooms are well furnished, twin bedded, with private showers and balconies.· The room was small but well furnished.· It is well furnished, and almost aggressively expresses Mrs Harrington's personality.· The rooms are well furnished and bedrooms have telephone, radio and mini-bar.· Bedrooms are well furnished and all have private bathroom and telephone.· The bedrooms are all well furnished, and each has its own bathroom, balcony, radio and telephone.
NOUN· The rooms are well furnished and bedrooms have telephone, radio and mini-bar.
· Any readers attempting to furnish a home should find ample material in the September issue.· Designers' Saturday is not an exhibition of how to furnish your home, but concerns itself with interior design as a whole.
· One would furnish houses and arrange landscapes; one might go dangerously far and people them with ... children.· How, the, could I have a furnished house?· Middleton was granted £100 to enable him to furnish his house.· Mrs Warfield helped them furnish the house, and they moved in.· It's all articles on how to keep young and furnish your house and take control of your-Her: Noooo.· With my eyes shut, I furnish the house with comfortable chairs, good lights, new books, musical instruments.
· Bedrooms are sparsely furnished and the dining rooms look drab.· His office is a light, sparsely furnished room without a desk.· Once you've decided which applications you want in every room, you can then furnish each room with its own applications.· It was a good-sized, heavily furnished room with windows on the canal.· It was furnished like any room.· She put her fists into her lap and crouched in her chair, the way people die in sparsely furnished rooms.· His head was slumped against a leather strap chained to the headboard of the king-size bed in the sparsely furnished living room.· We must furnish our spare room at once if this sort of thing is to happen often.
· The beamed lounge with its log fire is elegantly furnished in a country-house style.· The bedrooms are furnished in a traditional style and have air-conditioning.· The bedrooms are furnished in older style and have a private bathroom, though they do vary in size.· But don't be tied by necessity or convention to furnish all in one style.· It was furnished in a style which was new to the tall boy.· Each is furnished in a modern style with private facilities and at least one balcony.· It was furnished in Louis Quinze style.· It was newly furnished in a style guaranteed not to offend, a nice compromise of bureaucratic orthodoxy and modern functionalism.
WORD FAMILYnounfurnishingsfurnitureadjectivefurnished ≠ unfurnishedverbfurnish
1to put furniture and other things into a house or room: Having bought the house, they couldn’t afford to furnish it.furnish something with something a room furnished with a desk and swivel chair2 formal to supply or provide something: Will these finds furnish more information on prehistoric man?furnish somebody/something with something John was furnished with a list of local solicitors.—furnished adjective: The bedrooms are elegantly furnished. a fully furnished flat