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unlose

unlose verb: to recover (something lost); to find again.

Verb

unlose (third-person singular simple present unloses, present participle unlosing, simple past and past participle unlost)

  1. (rare, transitive) To recover (something lost); to find again.
    • Do words make the event realer? Do words bring back the lost moment, and hold it again, and by avowing its loss, right here, with her, the one from whom the event was lost, he, they, words, could unlose it, enter the moment as if it were still to be, and now actually is?2008, Robert Kelly, The Book from the Sky, page 199

Forms of unlose

third-person singular presentunloses
present participleunlosing
past participleunlost
pastunlost

Origin of unlose

From un- + lose.

Questions about unlose

What does unlose mean?
Unlose means to recover (something lost); to find again.
What part of speech is unlose?
Unlose is a verb.
What is the past tense of unlose?
The past tense of unlose is unlost.

Words near unlose in the dictionary

  1. unlording
  2. unlordly
  3. unlords
  4. unlosability
  5. unlosable
  6. unlose
  7. unloseable
  8. unloseableness
  9. unloses
  10. unlosing
  11. unlossy

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