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unhelp

unhelp verb: to undo or impede the help of.

Verb

unhelp (third-person singular simple present unhelps, present participle unhelping, simple past and past participle unhelped)

  1. (transitive) To undo or impede the help of.
    • When I was a child, I remember my mom busily preparing for a dinner party, saying, "If you are not going to help me, then at least don't unhelp me."2000, Mary Ann Froehlich, Peggysue Wells, What to Do When You Don't Know What to Say
    • "No more help! I want you to unhelp me."2004, Alejna Brugos, Linnea Micciulla, Christine E. Smith, Proceedings of the 28th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Volume 2

Noun

unhelp (uncountable)

  1. Lack or absence of help
    • But the unhelp, the disobedience!1950, Frank Kendon, Jacob & Thomas: Darkness, page 18

Forms of unhelp

third-person singular presentunhelps
present participleunhelping
past participleunhelped
pastunhelped

Origin of unhelp

From un- + help.

From Middle English unhelpe, equivalent to un- + help.

Questions about unhelp

What does unhelp mean?
Unhelp means to undo or impede the help of.
What part of speech is unhelp?
Unhelp can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of unhelp?
The past tense of unhelp is unhelped.

Words near unhelp in the dictionary

  1. unhelmeted
  2. unhelmeting
  3. unhelmets
  4. unhelming
  5. unhelms
  6. unhelp
  7. unhelpability
  8. unhelpable
  9. unhelpableness
  10. unhelped
  11. unhelpful

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