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unbeen

unbeen is the past participle of unbe.

Meaning of unbe

Verb

unbe (no third-person singular simple present, present participle unbeing, no simple past, past participle unbeen)

  1. (no-past, poetic, rare, transitive) To deprive (someone or something) of being; to make nonexistent.
  2. (intransitive, no-past, poetic, rare) To lack being; to be nonexistent.
    • I cannot bear my fate as writ, / I'd have my life unbe; / Would turn my memory to a blot, / Make every relic of me rot, / My doings be as they were not, / And what they've brought to me!1901, Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present, Edinburgh & London: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., page 234

Questions about unbeen

What is unbeen the past participle of?
Unbeen is the past participle of unbe.

Words near unbeen in the dictionary

  1. unbedinned
  2. unbedizened
  3. unbedraggled
  4. unbeds
  5. unbeefy
  6. unbeen
  7. unbeeped
  8. unbeery
  9. unbefit
  10. unbefits
  11. unbefitted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unbeen (page history and authors); unbe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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