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undissemble

undissemble verb: to reveal one's dissimulation; to admit to lying.

Verb

undissemble (third-person singular simple present undissembles, present participle undissembling, simple past and past participle undissembled)

  1. (archaic, rare, reflexive) To reveal one's dissimulation; to admit to lying.
    • What inscrutable thing was it, that so suddenly had seized him, and made him a falsifyer—ay, a falsifyer and nothing less—to his own dearly-beloved, and confiding mother? […] But, nevertheless, on strict introspection, he felt, that he would not willingly have it otherwise; not willingly would he...1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Forms of undissemble

third-person singular presentundissembles
present participleundissembling
past participleundissembled
pastundissembled

Origin of undissemble

From un- + dissemble.

Questions about undissemble

What does undissemble mean?
Undissemble means to reveal one's dissimulation; to admit to lying.
What part of speech is undissemble?
Undissemble is a verb.
What is the past tense of undissemble?
The past tense of undissemble is undissembled.

Words near undissemble in the dictionary

  1. undisruptive
  2. undisruptively
  3. undissable
  4. undissectable
  5. undissected
  6. undissemble
  7. undissembled
  8. undissembles
  9. undissembling
  10. undissemblingly
  11. undisseminated

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