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unspend

unspend verb: to recover (money that has been spent); to undo the spending of.

Verb

unspend (third-person singular simple present unspends, present participle unspending, simple past and past participle unspent)

  1. (rare, transitive) To recover (money that has been spent); to undo the spending of.
    • Now that I have to get a mortgage, I wish I could unspend all that money I wasted on my car.

Forms of unspend

third-person singular presentunspends
present participleunspending
past participleunspent
pastunspent

Origin of unspend

From un- + spend.

Questions about unspend

What does unspend mean?
Unspend means to recover (money that has been spent); to undo the spending of.
What part of speech is unspend?
Unspend is a verb.
What is the past tense of unspend?
The past tense of unspend is unspent.

Words near unspend in the dictionary

  1. unspellable
  2. unspelled
  3. unspelling
  4. unspells
  5. unspelt
  6. unspend
  7. unspendable
  8. unspending
  9. unspends
  10. unspent
  11. unspewed

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