Purvey

//pɚˈveɪ//

Synonyms for "purvey" (15 found)

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Closest matches (3)

Strong matches (5)

Related words (7)

Related word relations

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More general

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Synonyms

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Related terms

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derived

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related to

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Translations

16 translations across 8 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • доставям verb (to furnish, provide)
  • снабдявам verb (to furnish, provide)

Czech

2 entries
  • dodávat verb (to furnish, provide)
  • poskytovat verb (to furnish, provide)

French

1 entries
  • pourvoir verb (to furnish, provide)

German

2 entries
  • (vor)bereiten verb (obsolete: to prepare in advance)
  • besorgen verb (to furnish, provide)

Macedonian

2 entries
  • на́бави verb (to furnish, provide)
  • сна́бди verb (to furnish, provide)

Polish

4 entries
  • przygotować verb (obsolete: to prepare in advance)
  • przygotowywać verb (obsolete: to prepare in advance)
  • zaopatrywać verb (to furnish, provide)
  • zaopatrzyć verb (to furnish, provide)

Russian

1 entries
  • снабжать verb (to furnish, provide)

Spanish

2 entries
  • preveer verb (obsolete: to prepare in advance)
  • proveer verb (to furnish, provide)

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism. It's a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match. And this works, not just for the ordinary aspects of science, but for all of life.

Source: tatoeba (6104342)

A sayd the kynge / syn ye knowe of your aduenture puruey for hit / and put awey by your craftes that mysauenture / Nay said Merlyn it wylle not be / soo he departed from the kynge

Source: wiktionary

Giue no ods to your foes, but do puruay / Your selfe of sword before that bloudy day:

Source: wiktionary

Those who sell their own products are distinguished from purveyors, who purvey what others produce.

Source: wiktionary

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.