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unfulfil

unfulfil is the alternative spelling of unfulfill.

Meaning of unfulfill

Verb

unfulfill (third-person singular simple present unfulfills, present participle unfulfilling, simple past and past participle unfulfilled)

  1. (US, transitive) to not fulfill; stop short of fulfillment or completion
    • He declares that when he was bachelor he had love relations with a woman whose name he cannot state and from which relations a child was borne by the name of Domingo, of forty three years of age, and who was baptized in the parish of Mandurriao, Iloilo, by the name of Domingo of unknown parents...1905, Cases and Points of the Supreme Court of the United States

Forms of unfulfil

third-person singular presentunfulfils
present participleunfulfilling
past participleunfulfilled
pastunfulfilled

Questions about unfulfil

What is unfulfil the alternative spelling of?
Unfulfil is the alternative spelling of unfulfill.

Words near unfulfil in the dictionary

  1. unfueled
  2. unfueling
  3. unfuelled
  4. unfuelling
  5. unfuels
  6. unfulfil
  7. unfulfill
  8. unfulfillable
  9. unfulfillably
  10. unfulfilled
  11. unfulfilledness

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