unget
/ʌnˈɡɛt/
unget verb: to cause to be unbegotten or unborn, or as if unbegotten or unborn.
Verb
unget (third-person singular simple present ungets, present participle ungetting, simple past ungot, past participle ungot or ungotten)
- To cause to be unbegotten or unborn, or as if unbegotten or unborn.
- I'll diſovvn you, I'll diſinherit you, I'll unget you!1775 January 17 (first performance), [Richard Brinsley Sheridan], The Rivals, a Comedy. […], London: […] John Wilkie, […], published 1775, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 32
- To unacquire; relinquish; release; get rid of; lose; lose hold of; forget
- He felt himself in the position that having got the conviction he did not see how he was to unget it.1893, The Parliamentary Debates, page 1491
- One senses from the paintings that followed his first explosion of production that he hoped to unget the hang of something he'd just gotten the hang of, to whittle down even further his self-professed paucity of conceptual and manual means.2012, Scott Rothkopf, Wade Guyton OS, page 27
Forms of unget
| third-person singular present | ungets |
|---|---|
| present participle | ungetting |
| past | ungot |
| past participle | ungot |
| past participle | ungotten |
Origin of unget
From un- + get; compare unbeget, Middle English ungeten (“unbegotten; not won; not captured”).
Questions about unget
- What does unget mean?
- Unget means to cause to be unbegotten or unborn, or as if unbegotten or unborn.
- What part of speech is unget?
- Unget is a verb.
- How do you pronounce unget?
- Unget is pronounced /ʌnˈɡɛt/.
- What is the past tense of unget?
- The past tense of unget is ungot.
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