Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To unfurnish; divest or strip of qualifications; in the following quotation, to divest of resolution.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To deprive of necessary provision; to unfurnish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
deprive ofnecessary provision ; tounfurnish .
Etymologies
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un- + provide
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Examples
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Get me some poison, Iago; this night: Ill not expostulate with her, lest her body and beauty unprovide my mind again.
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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.
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-- I'll not expostulate with her, lest her body and beauty unprovide my mind again: -- this night, Iago.
Othello William Shakespeare 1590
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I'll not expostulate with her, lest her body and beauty unprovide my mind again: — this night, lago. lago.
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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.
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