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unengage

unengage verb: to rid of a marriage engagement.

Verb

unengage (third-person singular simple present unengages, present participle unengaging, simple past and past participle unengaged)

  1. (transitive) To rid of a marriage engagement.
    • Well, now she had to unengage herself, and she wasn't looking forward to the process.2013, Cathy Williams, The Notorious Gabriel Diaz, page 131
    • How the heck do you unengage the girl you're dating so that one day you can ask her again...probably, maybe? None of these thoughts occurred to me when I fell down on bended knee the first time.2018, Piper Rayne, Engaged to the EMT

Forms of unengage

third-person singular presentunengages
present participleunengaging
past participleunengaged
pastunengaged

Origin of unengage

From un- + engage.

Questions about unengage

What does unengage mean?
Unengage means to rid of a marriage engagement.
What part of speech is unengage?
Unengage is a verb.
What is the past tense of unengage?
The past tense of unengage is unengaged.

Words near unengage in the dictionary

  1. unenforcedly
  2. unenforcement
  3. unenforcibility
  4. unenforcible
  5. unenfranchised
  6. unengage
  7. unengaged
  8. unengagement
  9. unengages
  10. unengaging
  11. unengagingly

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