degarnish

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DEGARNISH, verb transitive 1. To unfurnish; to strip of furniture, ornaments or apparatus. 2. To deprive of a garrison, or troops necessary for defense; as, to degarnish a city or fort. Washingtons Letter. Nov. 11, 1778.
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