disfurnishing

verb

present participle of disfurnish
as in stripping

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  1. stripping
  2. evicting
Verb
  • Instead, use lukewarm water and keep your showers short to avoid stripping your scalp of its natural oils.
    — Audrey Noble, Vogue, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Robinson felt similarly revitalized by stripping back to the bare bones.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of stripping
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  • But by 1992, May Wah had succeeded in evicting the last two tenants.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
  • One of the attractions of self-storage as a business is that evicting stuff is easier than evicting people.
    — David Owen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of evicting
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