Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To strip or divest, as of something that garnishes or furnishes; disfurnish; degarnish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To divest of garniture; to disfurnish; to dismantle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To divest of
garniture ; todisfurnish ; todismantle .
Etymologies
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dis- + garnish. See degarnish.
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Examples
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But the more the damsel presseth him to disarm, the more it misliketh him, for the place seemeth him right dark and foul-seeming, wherefore will he not disarm nor disgarnish himself.
The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869
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Devens could not disgarnish his main line without Howard's permission, and it is not fair, therefore, to hold him responsible for the disaster.
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Campaigns of the Civil War - VI Abner Doubleday 1856
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