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unprovide en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + provide.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, transitive) To deprive of necessary provision, neglect, or unfurnish.
    • Get me some poison, Iago, this night. I’ll not expostulate with her, lest her body and beauty unprovide my mind again—This night, Iago! c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

Forms

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unprovided Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unprovided Tense=Past lexicographic
unprovides Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
unproviding Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic