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unprovide

unprovide verb: to deprive of necessary provision, neglect, or unfurnish.

Verb

unprovide (third-person singular simple present unprovides, present participle unproviding, simple past and past participle unprovided)

  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...

Forms of unprovide

third-person singular presentunprovides
present participleunproviding
past participleunprovided
pastunprovided

Origin of unprovide

From un- + provide.

Questions about unprovide

What does unprovide mean?
Unprovide means to deprive of necessary provision, neglect, or unfurnish.
What part of speech is unprovide?
Unprovide is a verb.
What is the past tense of unprovide?
The past tense of unprovide is unprovided.

Words near unprovide in the dictionary

  1. unprovenly
  2. unprovenness
  3. unproverbial
  4. unproves
  5. unprovidable
  6. unprovide
  7. unprovided
  8. unprovidedly
  9. unprovidedness
  10. unprovidenced
  11. unprovident

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