unprovide

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verb

To deprive of necessary provision, neglect, or unfurnish.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person unprovides · participle present unproviding · participle past unprovided · past unprovided

  1. archaictransitiveTo 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 Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]

Origin

From un- + provide.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unprovide,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unprovide.

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