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unsigns

unsigns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unsign.

Meaning of unsign

Verb

unsign (third-person singular simple present unsigns, present participle unsigning, simple past and past participle unsigned)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To remove one's signature from (something one has signed).
    • Listen : I say we signed, and there's no unsigning.
      And the voyage is never completed, though some may ask
      What creature is this, with the sea through his eyes looking[?]
      […]
      We signed and there's no unsigning.
      Hell, no, but she rolls
      And she rolls us like foam from her flanks, the gay mulatto.1942, Robert Herring, editor, Life and Letters To-Day, volume 34, page 203
  2. (or those acting on behalf of a state) To declare void one's signing of (a treaty).
    • Third, transnational legal process could be used to erode the force of the novel US tactic of unsigning the Rome Treaty.2005, Michael Ignatieff, American Exceptionalism and Human Rights, page 137

Questions about unsigns

What is unsigns the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unsigns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unsign.

Words near unsigns in the dictionary

  1. unsignificative
  2. unsignified
  3. unsignifying
  4. unsigning
  5. unsignposted
  6. unsigns
  7. unsiker
  8. unsilence
  9. unsilenceable
  10. unsilenceably
  11. unsilenced

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