unfit
/ʌnˈfɪt/ verb C2- To make unfit; to render unsuitable, spoil, disqualify.
He/she/it unfits · Past unfitted · Past participle unfitted · -ing form unfitting
Verb forms
- Base form
- unfit
- He/she/it
- unfits
- Past
- unfitted
- Past participle
- unfitted
- -ing form
- unfitting
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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THE RIVERS joined together to complain to the Sea, saying, “Why is it that when we flow into your tides so potable and sweet, you work in us such a change, and make us salty and unfit to drink?” The Sea, perceiving that they intended to throw the blame on him, said, “Pray cease to flow into me, and then you will not be made briny.”
Lynde says pride goes before a fall and she doesn’t believe in the higher education of women at all; she says it unfits them for woman’s true sphere.
After wandering along the lane for two hours, giving way to every variety of thought, reconsidering events, determining probabilities, and reconciling herself, as well as she could, to a change so sudden and so important, fatigue, and a recollection of her long absence, made her at length return home; and she entered the house with the wish of appearing cheerful as usual, and the resolution of repressing such reflections as must make her unfit for conversation.
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