untell

Verb

untell (third-person singular simple present untells, present participle untelling, simple past and past participle untold)

1. (transitive) To withdraw or retract (something told); to never have told.
   • Narrative untells itself by multiplying itself into discontinuous "turns" that cannot be resolved into a continuous story.1993, Jack Selzer, Understanding scientific prose, page 54
   • Trinh (1991) writes that untelling the stories of privilege and marginality is a form of displacement that takes a long time.1998, Diane DuBose Brunner, Between the masks: resisting the politics of essentialism, page 29
2. (archaic, transitive) To undo or reverse the counting of; to count back.
   • That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, / To untell the days, and to redeem these hours.1607, Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed with Kindness