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uncancel

uncancel verb: to take back, undo the act of canceling (someone or something).

Verb

uncancel (third-person singular simple present uncancels, present participle (US) uncanceling or (UK) uncancelling, simple past and past participle (US) uncanceled or (UK) uncancelled)

  1. (transitive) To take back, undo the act of canceling (someone or something).
    • Any clown with social media followers and moral self-laudation can cancel someone. […] No, I don’t cancel. I uncancel. And I’m a better public servant because of it. No one is remembered for what he got, only for what he gave. So, let he who is without sin cast the first tweet. The rest of us are...2020, Matt Gaetz, Firebrand: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the MAGA Revolution, Bombardier Books, Post Hill Press, →ISBN
    • It’s Time to Uncancel Americans / February 17, 2021 / This week, actress Gina Carano made headlines when Disney+ and Lucasfilm decided to cancel her from their hit series “The Mandalorian” over controversial social media posts.2021 February 17, Ben Shapiro, If It Ain’t Woke, Don’t Fix It, Hermosa Beach, Calif.: Creators Publishing, published 2022, →ISBN

Forms of uncancel

third-person singular presentuncancels
present participle USuncanceling
present participle UKuncancelling
past participle USuncanceled
past USuncanceled
past participle UKuncancelled
past UKuncancelled

Origin of uncancel

From un- + cancel.

Questions about uncancel

What does uncancel mean?
Uncancel means to take back, undo the act of canceling (someone or something).
What part of speech is uncancel?
Uncancel is a verb.
What is the past tense of uncancel?
The past tense of uncancel is uncanceled.

Words near uncancel in the dictionary

  1. uncamps
  2. uncampy
  3. uncan
  4. unCanadian
  5. uncanalized
  6. uncancel
  7. uncancelability
  8. uncancelable
  9. uncanceled
  10. uncanceling
  11. uncancellability

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