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unsaw

unsaw is the simple past and past participle of unsee.

Meaning of unsee

Verb

unsee (third-person singular simple present unsees, present participle unseeing, simple past unsaw, past participle unseen)

  1. (transitive) To undo the act of seeing something; to erase the memory of having seen something, or otherwise reverse the effect of having seen something.
    • We have shown the world, and it cannot be unseen, it cannot be unknown, it cannot be forgotten, that Christianity cannot be defended on any ground where Infidelity can get an inch of fair play against it.1829, Robert Taylor, “Infidel Mission.—Fifteenth Bulletin”, in The Lion, volume IV, number 10, page 304

Questions about unsaw

What is unsaw the simple past and past participle of?
Unsaw is the simple past and past participle of unsee.

Words near unsaw in the dictionary

  1. unsavoured
  2. unsavourily
  3. unsavouriness
  4. unsavoury
  5. unsavvy
  6. unsaw
  7. unsawable
  8. unsawed
  9. unsawn
  10. unsay
  11. unsayability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsaw (page history and authors); unsee (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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