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unnotify

unnotify verb: to cancel (a notification).

Verb

unnotify (third-person singular simple present unnotifies, present participle unnotifying, simple past and past participle unnotified)

  1. (rare, transitive) To cancel (a notification).
    • July 3, 1757, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann
      I notified to you the settlement of the Ministry, and, contrary to late custom, have not to unnotify it again. However, it took ten days to complete, after an inter-ministerium of exactly three months.
  2. (rare, transitive) To notify (a person) that a prior notification should now be disregarded.
    • "Well, you unnotify the railroad," Mugivan stormed.1950, George A. Hamid, University of Michigan-Flint: Arab-American Archives Project, Circus (page 182)

Forms of unnotify

third-person singular presentunnotifies
present participleunnotifying
past participleunnotified
pastunnotified

Origin of unnotify

From un- + notify.

Questions about unnotify

What does unnotify mean?
Unnotify means to cancel (a notification).
What part of speech is unnotify?
Unnotify is a verb.
What is the past tense of unnotify?
The past tense of unnotify is unnotified.

Words near unnotify in the dictionary

  1. unnotices
  2. unnoticing
  3. unnoticingly
  4. unnotified
  5. unnotifies
  6. unnotify
  7. unnotifying
  8. unnoting
  9. unnotorious
  10. unnourishable
  11. unnourished

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