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Unfurnish

Unfurnish \Un*fur"nish\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + furnish.] To strip of furniture; to divest; to strip.

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unfurnish

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To strip (a place) of defences or defenders. 2 (context transitive English) To strip of furniture.

Usage examples of "unfurnish".

The single large room was unfurnished save for a crazy table, three wooden boxes, which might be used as seats, and a great pile of decayed fishing-net in the corner.

And he passed us into the huge tent, which was unfurnished, save for a row of wooden benches round the sides.

Women or guns with such, and those unfurnished, cannot pass the barrier.

Dick singularly bare and unfurnished, mother and son went out for a drive, in one of the carriages belonging to the hotel.

Rajbullub, you have done wonders--that is, if the house was unfurnished, yesterday.

Sir Los shut the door with a faint boom that echoed through the stark, unfurnished antechamber.

Everything about the lighthouse was right--from the fact that it was a short ten minutes from the children, the office, and the store, to the fact that it was the perfect size, to the fact that it was unoccupied, unfurnished, and in need of little more than cosmetics to aid its charm.

The room was empty and unfurnished, with the exception of a dilapidated stove which stood against the partition separating this room from the one the young lady had entered.

The ground floors and the upper stories of each were unfurnished and deserted, the broken windows covered by decaying shutters.

The owners had hastily moved and the unfurnished rooms echoed hollowly to the sound of voices and the shuffling of feet.

The apartment stank, the place was virtually unfurnished and roaches roamed the floor boldlyeven now, in the diffuse noon light bleeding in through the greasy windows.

Guardians unfurnished this room some time ago, and we have a certain shortage of chairs.

The heavers forward now resume their song, and while the one tackle is peeling and hoisting a second strip from the whale, the other is slowly slackened away, and down goes the first strip through the main hatchway right beneath, into an unfurnished parlor called the blubber-room.