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Webster 1913 Edition


Unget

Un-get′

,
Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+
get
.]
To cause to be unbegotten or unborn, or as if unbegotten or unborn.
[R.]
I ’ll disown you, I 'll disinherit you, I 'll
unget
you.
Sheridan.

Definition 2024


unget

unget

English

Verb

unget (third-person singular simple present ungets, present participle ungetting, simple past and past participle ungot)

  1. (transitive) To cause to be unbegotten or unborn, or as if unbegotten or unborn.
    • Sheridan
      I'll disown you, I'll disinherit you, I'll unget you.
  2. (transitive) To unacquire; relinquish; release; get rid of; lose; lose hold of; forget
    • 1893, THE PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES - Page 1491:
      [...] many of his co-disciples not only equal to one another but equal to anything. He felt himself in the position that having got the conviction he did not see how he was to unget it.
    • 2012, Scott Rothkopf, Wade Guyton OS - Page 27:
      One senses from the paintings that followed his first explosion of production that he hoped to unget the hang of something he'd just gotten the hang of, to whittle down even further his self-professed paucity of conceptual and manual means.


Latin

Verb

unget

  1. third-person singular future active indicative of ungō