Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive of provision; empty; strip.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To disfurnish; to strip.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
disfurnish ; tostrip .
Etymologies
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dis- + purvey: compare Old French desporveoir, French dépourvoir.
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