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ungive

ungive verb: to yield, relax, slacken, give way or loosen.

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

Forms of ungive

third-person singular presentungives
present participleungiving
pastungave
past participleungiven

Origin of ungive

From un- + give.

Questions about ungive

What does ungive mean?
Ungive means to yield, relax, slacken, give way or loosen.
What part of speech is ungive?
Ungive is a verb.
What is the past tense of ungive?
The past tense of ungive is ungave.

Words near ungive in the dictionary

  1. ungirth
  2. ungirthed
  3. ungirthing
  4. ungirths
  5. ungivable
  6. ungive
  7. ungiveable
  8. ungiven
  9. ungivenness
  10. ungives
  11. ungiving

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