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unexist

unexist verb: to not exist, or to cease to exist.

Verb

unexist (third-person singular simple present unexists, present participle unexisting, simple past and past participle unexisted)

  1. (colloquial, intransitive) To not exist, or to cease to exist.
    • They too are as lost and fragmented as their makers. Uprooted caravans crossing the arid countryside, cascading barren slopes, gracefully balancing on their heads the remnants of their ecology packed in gray burlap sacks of charcoal, for black is the charcoal and white the countryside where lush...2017, Gaston Vilaire, The Eve of Paramour, →ISBN
  2. (colloquial, transitive) To cause (someone or something) to not exist.
    • A man who's unexisted himself.1990, Linda Hartinian, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said: Based Upon the Novel by Philip K. Dick, →ISBN, page 25
    • Unpopularity had been the outcome of stardom. The latter became a more pronounced phenomenon after Ms. Holly disappearance from existence. With Ms. Holly unexisted, I was terrified. Who could I trust? Well, no one or else they may go the way of Ms. Holly.2011, Franklin E. Morgan, Time Delay, →ISBN, page 70

Antonyms of unexist

Forms of unexist

third-person singular presentunexists
present participleunexisting
past participleunexisted
pastunexisted

Origin of unexist

From un- + exist.

Questions about unexist

What does unexist mean?
Unexist means to not exist, or to cease to exist.
What part of speech is unexist?
Unexist is a verb.
What is the past tense of unexist?
The past tense of unexist is unexisted.

Words near unexist in the dictionary

  1. unexhorted
  2. unexhumed
  3. unexigent
  4. unexiguous
  5. unexiled
  6. unexist
  7. unexisted
  8. unexistence
  9. unexistent
  10. unexisting
  11. unexists

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