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unsake

unsake verb: to forsake.

Verb

unsake (third-person singular simple present unsakes, present participle unsaking, simple past unsook, past participle unsaken)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To forsake.
    • But he that unsakes (forsakes) me before men, I unsake him before Father mine he that is in heaven.1807, The Gothic Gospel of Saint Matthew

Forms of unsake

third-person singular presentunsakes
present participleunsaking
pastunsook
past participleunsaken

Origin of unsake

From Middle English onsaken, from Old English onsacan (“to attack, strive against”), from Proto-Germanic *ansakaną, *andsakaną (“to resist, object”), equivalent to un- + sake. Cognate with Old Saxon andsakan, antsakan (“to deny, defend oneself”).

Questions about unsake

What does unsake mean?
Unsake means to forsake.
What part of speech is unsake?
Unsake is a verb.
What is the past tense of unsake?
The past tense of unsake is unsook.

Words near unsake in the dictionary

  1. unsainting
  2. unsaintlike
  3. unsaintliness
  4. unsaintly
  5. unsaints
  6. unsake
  7. unsaken
  8. unsakes
  9. unsaking
  10. unsalability
  11. unsalable

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