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unrecognise

unrecognise is the alternative spelling of unrecognize.

Meaning of unrecognize

Verb

unrecognize (third-person singular simple present unrecognizes, present participle unrecognizing, simple past and past participle unrecognized)

  1. (transitive) To cease to recognize.
    • We are so good that it is almost impossible to unrecognize a face in order to notice the asymmetries that help us first recognize it.2007 August 15, “Reading Lincoln’s Face”, in New York Times

Forms of unrecognise

third-person singular presentunrecognises
present participleunrecognising
past participleunrecognised
pastunrecognised

Origin of unrecognise

From un- + recognise.

Questions about unrecognise

What is unrecognise the alternative spelling of?
Unrecognise is the alternative spelling of unrecognize.

Words near unrecognise in the dictionary

  1. unreclining
  2. unreclusive
  3. unrecognisability
  4. unrecognisable
  5. unrecognisably
  6. unrecognise
  7. unrecognised
  8. unrecognises
  9. unrecognising
  10. unrecognition
  11. unrecognizability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unrecognise (page history and authors); unrecognize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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