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unsummon

unsummon verb: to send (a summoned creature) back to its own plane of existence.

Verb

unsummon (third-person singular simple present unsummons, present participle unsummoning, simple past and past participle unsummoned)

  1. (transitive) To send (a summoned creature) back to its own plane of existence.
    • "I just noticed... is little Nase gone?" "She vanished a little while ago." "You mean the spell ran out." "Yes. You'd have noticed if I'd unsummoned her prematurely."2014 October 27, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive - EGS:NP (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Oct 27, 2014
    • “Right,” Jora said. “The Concord. With those two objects, the three of us could unsummon Urielle, and no one had to die. […]2016, K. C. May, Requiem of Reprisal

Forms of unsummon

third-person singular presentunsummons
present participleunsummoning
past participleunsummoned
pastunsummoned

Origin of unsummon

From un- + summon.

Questions about unsummon

What does unsummon mean?
Unsummon means to send (a summoned creature) back to its own plane of existence.
What part of speech is unsummon?
Unsummon is a verb.
What is the past tense of unsummon?
The past tense of unsummon is unsummoned.

Words near unsummon in the dictionary

  1. unsummerlike
  2. unsummerly
  3. unsummery
  4. unsummited
  5. unsummitted
  6. unsummon
  7. unsummonable
  8. unsummoned
  9. unsummoning
  10. unsummons
  11. unsummonsed

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