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unheart

unheart verb: to cause to lose heart; to dishearten.

Verb

unheart (third-person singular simple present unhearts, present participle unhearting, simple past and past participle unhearted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to lose heart; to dishearten.
    • I think he'll hear me. Yet to bite his lip / And hum at good Cominius much unhearts me.c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act 5, scene 1

Forms of unheart

third-person singular presentunhearts
present participleunhearting
past participleunhearted
pastunhearted

Origin of unheart

From un- + heart.

Questions about unheart

What does unheart mean?
Unheart means to cause to lose heart; to dishearten.
What part of speech is unheart?
Unheart is a verb.
What is the past tense of unheart?
The past tense of unheart is unhearted.

Words near unheart in the dictionary

  1. unheard-of
  2. unhearing
  3. unhearingly
  4. unhears
  5. unhearse
  6. unheart
  7. unhearted
  8. unheartened
  9. unheartening
  10. unheartfelt
  11. unheartily

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