unprovisionedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnprəˈvɪʒnd/, U.S. /ˌənprəˈvɪʒ(ə)nd/, /ˌənˌproʊˈvɪʒ(ə)nd/ Not provisioned; lacking provisions.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [adjective] > having no food > not fed
unsuppedc1384
unfeda1400
unvictualled1484
undined?a1513
unbreakfasted1647
undieted1649
unprovisioned1747
undinnered1799
luncheonless1883
1747 Considerations on Both Sides 22 They furnish'd us both with Shipping and Troops..:—the one was unprovision'd, and half-mann'd, and the others tied down from Fighting.
1796 S. T. Coleridge Let. 13 Dec. (1895) 189 I shall be again afloat on the wide sea, unpiloted and unprovisioned.
1827 R. Pollok Course of Time I. ii. 52 Choosing thus unshipped, Uncompassed, unprovisioned,..To swim a sea of breadth immeasurable.
1900 Times 3 Sept. 13/1 If we were attacked that night with the fort unprovisioned..there was some cause for anxiety.
2011 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 27 Jan. 50 Evacuations..were carried out hastily in unheated and unprovisioned cattle trucks.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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