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Unsuit

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Meaning

(transitive) To cause to fail to suit; to make (something or someone) unfit..

Definitions by Sense

  1. (transitive) To cause to fail to suit; to make (something or someone) unfit.
  2. (intransitive) To take off a suit.
  3. (transitive) To dismiss the legal suit of (a plaintiff)
  4. A swimsuit made of cloth that allows through UVB rays so that the wearer can tan through the suit.
  5. A legal suit that is dismissed by the judge.

Example Sentences

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 their lot, and unsuit them for following the plough, using the spade, hammering iron, and building walls."
It is a sunny, cheerful tree, full of glorious vitality, and always beautiful, though it may have faults that unsuit it for some places.
Being too tall would unsuit the person concerned from, say, being a bus-conductor in a situation where most buses have low ceilings!
I swear the country's got warmer since the Great War. It makes men lazy, it makes them incompetent. It unsuits them to empire.
For example, the way that the straight part of the spring is modified to serve as a rudimentary hammer in the two-part mousetrap (figure 4.3) unsuits it to engaging the hammer in the three-part mousetrap (figure 4.4).
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.·
Drooble also unsuits, more slowly than his Captain, and follows him as he stomps impatiently towards the bridge.
Nothing untoward happens to him, so he unsuits.

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Related Words

ill-sortedmismatchedmismatedincompatibleill-suitedunsuitableunfitinopportuneimproperinappropriateineptinadequateunworkableimpracticalflawedunbefitunsatisfydisbecomedispleaseindispose

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What does unsuit mean?

Unsuit means (transitive) To cause to fail to suit; to make (something or someone) unfit..

What is a synonym for unsuit?

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How do you use unsuit in a sentence?

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 their lot, and unsuit them for following the plough, using the spade, hammering iron, and building walls."

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