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unprepare

unprepare verb: to undo the preparation of.

Verb

unprepare (third-person singular simple present unprepares, present participle unpreparing, simple past and past participle unprepared)

  1. (transitive) To undo the preparation of.
    • The planters generally are doing very little to prepare the apprentices for freedom, but some are doing very much to unprepare them. They are driving the people from them by their conduct.1838, James A. Thome, Joseph Horace Kimball, Emancipation in the West Indies, page 222
    • After we write out the audio data, we need to unprepare the header and close the device. But we can't do that until the device completes playback […]1997, Anthony Potts, Chris D. Coppola, Scott Jarol, Visual Basic 5 Web and Multimedia Adventure Set, page 650

Forms of unprepare

third-person singular presentunprepares
present participleunpreparing
past participleunprepared
pastunprepared

Origin of unprepare

From un- + prepare.

Questions about unprepare

What does unprepare mean?
Unprepare means to undo the preparation of.
What part of speech is unprepare?
Unprepare is a verb.
What is the past tense of unprepare?
The past tense of unprepare is unprepared.

Words near unprepare in the dictionary

  1. unpreoccupied
  2. unpreordained
  3. unprepackaged
  4. unpreparable
  5. unpreparation
  6. unprepare
  7. unprepared
  8. unpreparedly
  9. unpreparedness
  10. unprepareds
  11. unprepares

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