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unsell

unsell verb: to cause to appear less attractive to consumers or adherents.

Verb

unsell (third-person singular simple present unsells, present participle unselling, simple past and past participle unsold)

  1. (transitive) To cause to appear less attractive to consumers or adherents.
    • Politicians will try to unsell the public on its conviction of rearmament.
    • At the same time, every effort to unsell something may also be viewed as an effort to sell something else. Those who attempt to unsell cigarette smoking are attempting to sell health...1983, Thomas C. Kinnear, Kenneth L. Bernhardt, Dynamics of marketing principles: a reader

Forms of unsell

third-person singular presentunsells
present participleunselling
past participleunsold
pastunsold

Origin of unsell

From un- + sell.

Questions about unsell

What does unsell mean?
Unsell means to cause to appear less attractive to consumers or adherents.
What part of speech is unsell?
Unsell is a verb.
What is the past tense of unsell?
The past tense of unsell is unsold.

Words near unsell in the dictionary

  1. unselfishnesses
  2. unselflike
  3. unselfness
  4. unselfpitying
  5. unselfs
  6. unsell
  7. unsellability
  8. unsellable
  9. unselling
  10. unsells
  11. unselves

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