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ungave

ungave is the simple past of ungive.

Meaning of ungive

Verb

ungive (third-person singular simple present ungives, present participle ungiving, simple past ungave, past participle ungiven)

  1. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To yield, relax, slacken, give way or loosen.
  2. (UK, dialectal, intransitive) To melt; thaw.
  3. (transitive) To take back something that had been given.
    • "Impossible," Vail said. "She's going to work at one of the prestige films at the end of this month. She's already given notice!" "Well apparently she ungave it. [...]"1994, William Diehl, Primal Fear

Questions about ungave

What is ungave the simple past of?
Ungave is the simple past of ungive.

Words near ungave in the dictionary

  1. ungauntlet
  2. ungauntleted
  3. ungauntleting
  4. ungauntlets
  5. Ungava
  6. ungave
  7. ungay
  8. ungayed
  9. ungaying
  10. ungays
  11. ungazed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ungave (page history and authors); ungive (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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