unfund

From un- +‎ fund.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌʌnˈfʌnd/
• Rhymes: -ʌnd

unfund (third-person singular simple present unfunds, present participle unfunding, simple past and past participle unfunded)

1. (transitive) To remove, rescind, or cancel funding for.
   • 1794, Edmund Hogan, Francis Hopkinson, The Pennsylvania State Trials:

     […] if the Act of 1789 designed only to unfund the debt, it is equally unjust with destroying it, it is different not in principle but in degree.

   • 1973, Presidential Campaign Activities of 1972, Senate Resolution:

     So the effort to unfund them, really, was based on their learning that they were nonsupportive?

   • 1974, Transactions - Volume 26, Parts 2-3, page D-622:

     But that in-force block will become an unfunding block at some point where the payments made are greater than the premiums, investment income, and investment rollover.

   • 1998, Security Assistance Management Manual:

     This data element contains the last two positions of the latest IMET order number that either funds, unfunds, or modifies an IMET record.

• defund