unhate
unhate verb: to leave off, cease, or desist from hating.
Verb
unhate (third-person singular simple present unhates, present participle unhating, simple past and past participle unhated)
- To leave off, cease, or desist from hating.
- I hate you! And I'll never unhate you or nothing!1982, Eric Wanner, Lila R. Gleitman, Language Acquisition
- Till when, All that was, is; and must forever be. Nor is it in me to unhate my hates, — [...]2004, Robert Browning, Stefan Hawlin, Ian Robert James Jack, The Poetical Works of Robert Browning - Volume 9 - Page 317
Noun
unhate (uncountable)
- The lack, absence, or omission of hate; hatelessness; love.
- Hold me. I am perishing. Achilles We can never perish. It is Unlove and unhate that give form To phantasms of time and space.1951, Kenneth Rexroth, Beyond the mountains - Page 71
- [...] as Greene in his Our Man in Havana and other novels of power and glory, puzzled and worried, for other reasons than purely political or literary, why on earth should lt be easy to work up the politics of hate, but difficult to work out the politics of unhate.1993, Shuaib Bin Hasan, Amer Rashid Sheikh, A passage to Pakistan - Page 85
Forms of unhate
| third-person singular present | unhates |
|---|---|
| present participle | unhating |
| past participle | unhated |
| past | unhated |
Origin of unhate
From un- + hate (verb).
From un- + hate (noun).
Questions about unhate
- What does unhate mean?
- Unhate means to leave off, cease, or desist from hating.
- What part of speech is unhate?
- Unhate can be a verb or a noun.
- What is the past tense of unhate?
- The past tense of unhate is unhated.
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