unsuiting

Verb

unsuit (third-person singular simple present unsuits, present participle unsuiting, simple past and past participle unsuited)

1. (transitive) To cause to fail to suit; to make (something or someone) unfit.
   • Cardinal Cullen, in his evidence before the Educational Committee, given in their report of 1870, frankly stated his opinion that education should be limited to "the three R's, the reading of the Scriptures, and the history of the Church. Too much education would make the poor discontented with...1880 February 2, John Jay, “The Roman Catholic Question”, in The International Review, volume 8, page 292
2. (intransitive) To take off a suit.
   • The unsuiting and suiting up procedure was time-consuming and there was a risk of upsetting switches in the process, and he saw little point in taking off his suit now because they would require to suit up for the rendezvous.·2004, David Michael Harland, How NASA Learned to Fly in Space: An Exciting Account of the Gemini Missions, page 115
3. (transitive) To dismiss the legal suit of (a plaintiff)
   • It is now the settled law that the burden of proof is upon the railway administration who seeks to unsuit the plaintiff on the ground of limitation, to establish that the loss occurred beyond one year from the date of institution of the suit.1970, Charles Dickenson Field, T. L. Venkatarama Aiyar, C. D. Field's Law of Evidence, in India and Pakistan

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