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unmail

unmail verb: to undo the act of mailing; to recover from the postal system before delivery.

Verb

unmail (third-person singular simple present unmails, present participle unmailing, simple past and past participle unmailed)

  1. (transitive) To undo the act of mailing; to recover from the postal system before delivery.
    • Was it even possible to unmail a letter? She might have to lie, might have to say the letter contained explosives, or some kind of poison. Something extremely illegal.2013, Elizabeth Bass, The Way Back to Happiness

Forms of unmail

third-person singular presentunmails
present participleunmailing
past participleunmailed
pastunmailed

Origin of unmail

From un- + mail.

Questions about unmail

What does unmail mean?
Unmail means to undo the act of mailing; to recover from the postal system before delivery.
What part of speech is unmail?
Unmail is a verb.
What is the past tense of unmail?
The past tense of unmail is unmailed.

Words near unmail in the dictionary

  1. unmaidening
  2. unmaidenlike
  3. unmaidenliness
  4. unmaidenly
  5. unmaidens
  6. unmail
  7. unmailable
  8. unmailed
  9. unmailing
  10. unmails
  11. unmaimed

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