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unsays

unsays is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unsay.

Meaning of unsay

Verb

unsay (third-person singular simple present unsays, present participle unsaying, simple past and past participle unsaid)

  1. To withdraw, retract (something said).
    • And in the first place, you will be so good as to unsay that story about selling his head, which if true I take to be good evidence that this harpooneer is stark mad […]1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    retract
  2. To cause something not to have been said; to make it so that one never said something (since this is physically impossible, usually in the subjunctive).
    • I wish I could unsay that.

Questions about unsays

What is unsays the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unsays is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unsay.

Words near unsays in the dictionary

  1. unsayable
  2. unsayableness
  3. unsayably
  4. unsayed
  5. unsaying
  6. unsays
  7. UNSC
  8. unscabbard
  9. unscabbarded
  10. unscabbarding
  11. unscabbards

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