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ungives

ungives is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 ungives

What is ungives the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Ungives is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ungive.

Words near ungives in the dictionary

  1. ungivable
  2. ungive
  3. ungiveable
  4. ungiven
  5. ungivenness
  6. ungives
  7. ungiving
  8. ungka
  9. ungka-puti
  10. ungka-putis
  11. ungkas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ungives (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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