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untenant

untenant verb: to remove a tenant from.

Verb

untenant (third-person singular simple present untenants, present participle untenanting, simple past and past participle untenanted)

  1. (transitive) To remove a tenant from.
    • These are the Ignorant Omniscients to make place for whom we are exhorted by modern sages to exclude our God and Untenant the Universe.1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Destiny of Nations
    • The play moves them from mythology into religion, gives them a local worship, but without untenanting its former possessors.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VIII. Orestea. III: Eumenides”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 230

Forms of untenant

third-person singular presentuntenants
present participleuntenanting
past participleuntenanted
pastuntenanted

Origin of untenant

From un- + tenant.

Questions about untenant

What does untenant mean?
Untenant means to remove a tenant from.
What part of speech is untenant?
Untenant is a verb.
What is the past tense of untenant?
The past tense of untenant is untenanted.

Words near untenant in the dictionary

  1. untenable
  2. untenableness
  3. untenably
  4. untenacious
  5. untenacity
  6. untenant
  7. untenantability
  8. untenantable
  9. untenantableness
  10. untenanted
  11. untenanting

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