See unfit in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"word": "schlapp"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "not having a good physical demeanour",
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"word": "lahm"
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"word": "kraft- und saftlos"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "not having a good physical demeanour",
"word": "schwach"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "not having a good physical demeanour",
"word": "tē whiti (te tinana)"
}
],
"word": "unfit"
}
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"ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:",
"text": "He [...] added that he was fearful Christianity, or rather Christians, had unfitted him for ascending the pure and undefiled throne of thirty pagan Kings before him.",
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{
"ref": "1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.30:",
"text": "These preoccupations unfitted the soldiers for the defence of the frontier, and permitted vigorous incursions of Germans form the north and Persians from the east.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2018, Anna Rogers, With Them Through Hell, →ISBN, page 403:",
"text": "This life entirely unfits you for general practice.",
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},
{
"ref": "2020 April 8, Dr David Turner, “How railway staff were conduits and victims of a pandemic”, in Rail, page 31:",
"text": "The Select Committee on Transport (Metropolitan Area) of 1919 concluded the following: \"Trains were crowded not merely to excess, but almost to danger point. The crush in the 'peak hours' not only overloaded public conveyances, but subjected travellers - particularly the old, the feeble and women - to an amount of suffering, the effects of which often unfitted them temporarily for their ordinary duties.\"",
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