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unhappen

unhappen verb: to cease to have happened; to undo itself.

Verb

unhappen (third-person singular simple present unhappens, present participle unhappening, simple past and past participle unhappened)

  1. (intransitive) To cease to have happened; to undo itself.
    • I wish everything that happened between us could unhappen, and we could start again.

Forms of unhappen

third-person singular presentunhappens
present participleunhappening
past participleunhappened
pastunhappened

Origin of unhappen

From un- + happen.

Words that rhyme with unhappen

Questions about unhappen

What does unhappen mean?
Unhappen means to cease to have happened; to undo itself.
What part of speech is unhappen?
Unhappen is a verb.
What is the past tense of unhappen?
The past tense of unhappen is unhappened.

Words near unhappen in the dictionary

  1. unhanging
  2. unhangs
  3. unhap
  4. unhaphazard
  5. unhaphazardly
  6. unhappen
  7. unhappenable
  8. unhappened
  9. unhappening
  10. unhappenings
  11. unhappens

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