Find the word definition

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disfurnished

Disfurnish \Dis*fur"nish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disfurnished; p. pr. & vb. n. Disfurnishing.] [Pref. dis- + furnish.] To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest.

I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher.
--Massinger.

Wiktionary
disfurnished
  1. Deprived of furniture, accoutrements or belongings; stripped, destitute. v

  2. (en-past of: disfurnish)

Usage examples of "disfurnished".

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.