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To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify; as, sickness unfits a man for labor; sin unfits us for the society of ho…

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  1. v. t. To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify; as, sickness unfits a man for labor; sin unfits us for the society of holy beings.
  2. a. Not fit; unsuitable.
  3. adj. below the required standards for a purpose
  4. adj. not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition
  5. adj. physically unsound or diseased
  6. v. make unfit or unsuitable
  7. To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify; as, sickness unfits a man for labor; sin unfits us for the society of holy beings. Not fit; unsuitable. -- Un*fit"ly, adv. -- Un*fit"ness, n.
  8. To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength,skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate;to disqualify; as, sickness unfits a man for labor; sin unfits us forthe society of holy beings.
  9. j:94/v:6 a. below the required standards for a purpose a. not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition